The most evocative, interesting and thought-provoking pictures of the year.
By JPOST.COM STAFFMaccabiah participants from Great Britain 370(photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)October: Inspecting the etrog for Sukkot (Photo: Marc Israel Sellem)November: IDF soldiers prepare to leave their position on the Gaza border at the end of Operation Pillar of Defense (Photo: Reuters)December: A rare glimpse at the private lives of the ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem (Photo: Marc Israel Sellem)February: Binyamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid at the swearing-in ceremony for the new government (Photo: Marc Israel Sellem)March: Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama adopt a casual approach to diplomacy at Ben-Gurion Airport (Photo: The White House)April: IDF special forces training in the army's counter-terrorism academy (Photo: Marc Israel Sellem)May: Israel Police officers arrests a ultra-Orthodox man trying to prevent the Women of the Wall praying legally at the Kotel (Photo: Marc Israel Sellem)June: Celebrating Gay Pride at the annual march through the streets of Tel Aviv (Photo: Marc Israel Sellem)July: British participants at the 19th Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem (Photo: Marc Israel Sellem)