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Ultra-orthodox Jewish women light candles on the eighth night and last day of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in a religious neighbourhood of Jerusalem, on December 23, 2014. The holiday commemorates the re-dedication of the holy temple in Jerusalem after the Jews’ 165 B.C. victory over the Hellenist Syrians when Antiochus, the Greek King of Syria, outlawed Jewish rituals and ordered the Jews to worship Greek gods. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA