Worldview: Israel daily life

For this installment of Worldview: Daily Life, we focus on Israel. 

From lightning striking down during a storm over the Mediterranean sea, to an Ultra Orthodox Jewish family taking a stroll in Lifta, to a shepherd herding his flock in an open field, our photographers capture Israel's everyday life. 

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A shepherd herds his flock in an open field near the central Israeli town of Rehovot, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli youth walk on a water pipe on the Jordan river during the week long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, near the northern Israeli town of Tiberias, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A woman stops at a shop to take cover from rain, inside Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

A Palestinian walks past a section of Israel's separation barrier running between the biblical Tomb of Rachel, not seen, and the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A little boy watches two Israeli girls immerse their feet in a fish tank with Garra rufa, also known as Doctor fish, during a pedicure treatment at a salon in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Ultra Orthodox Jewish family members tour in Lifta, located in Jerusalem's mountains, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Two horses pasture near the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev Desert southern Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. Umm al-Hiran, near the Israeli city of Beersheba, is one of three dozen destitute Bedouin communities in Israel's southern desert that authorities don't recognize. The estimated 60,000 Bedouin who live in these communities can't legally build homes and with few exceptions, the government doesn't provide them with schools, roads, garbage collection, clinics, water or electricity. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A man shakes out his towel at the beach on the Mediterranean Sea in Caesarea, northern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A Jewish Orthodox man plays the guitar as he sells religious books in Jerusalem's old city Jaffa Gate, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Lightning strikes down during a storm over the Mediterranean sea near a cargo ship off the coast near Michmoret, Israel, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A gallery worker carries a painting in downtown Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A Muslim youth, prays inside the Dome of the Rock mosque in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam and referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan, when observers fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

A tourist from Japan holds an umbrella to protect herself from the sun as she walks next to the Golden Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Al Aqsa Mosque compound is one of the holiest site for Muslims. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks in central Jerusalem at sunset, Wednesday, April 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Ed Ou)

A woman watches wind surfers at the shores of Haifa, northern Israel, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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