Soviet Jewish World War II veteran Boris Ginsburg poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on April 11. Ginsburg, born in Belorussia, was kept by a German garrison in the Lenin ghetto since 1941 until its destruction by partisan units in September 1942. In 1942 he joined the partisans for two years and in 1944 he joined the Red Army as a combat soldier and fought till the end of the war. Ginsubrg demobilized in 1947 and immigrated to Israel in 2001.

Nahum Matovich, 87, poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Matovich was an air force bomber pilot on Ilyushin Il-4 bomber in the Soviet 18th Air Army and fought in Japan and Korea. He immigrated to Israel from Kishinev, today's Moldova, in 1994.

Yaakov Vilkovich, 90, poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. Vilkovich joined the Red Army in 1941, served in the 31st Army's infantry battalion and fought in the Battle of Berlin in 1945. He immigrated to Israel in 1998.

Shalom Skopes, 88, poses for a portrait at his house in Tel Aviv Israel. Skopes was a battalion commander in the Red Army, and fought in Latvia. During a battle he was injured by a hand grenade and was hospitalized until May 25, 1945. Skopes demobilized in 1947 and immigrated to Israel in 1959.

David Rivelsky poses for a portrait at his house in Jerusalem, Israel, April 17. In 1941, he took part in the heroic defense of Leningrad, as part of the Leningrad Front for which in 1943 was awarded with the medal "Defense of Leningrad."

Michael Sandler, 93, poses for a portrait at his house in Jerusalem, Israel. Sandler joined the Red Army, in 1939, served in the 3rd Guards Tank Army, 91st Separate Tank Brigade, in Stalingrad, then in Berlin and Prague until the end of the war. Sandler immigrated to Israel in 1991.

Semion Tzvang, 89, poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Tzvang joined the Red Army in 1941 and served in the First Ukrainian Front, a Soviet army group. He fought in Kiev, Prague and Berlin. Tzvang immigrated to Israel in 1991.

Tchudnovsky Itzhak poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Tchudnovsky joined the Red Army in 1942 and was an artillery commander at the Stalingrad front.

Gregory Stinman, 87, poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. Stinman joined the Red Army in 1943 and served in the First Belorussian Front, a Soviet formation equivalent to an Army group, until he was wounded on January 23, 1945. Stinman demobilized in 1950 and immigrated to Israel in 1991 from Belorussia.

Orlov Naum, 88, poses for a portrait at his house in central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion. Naum joined the Red Army in 1943 after two years of evacuation from Odessa in Kazahstan. He served in 3rd Guard Tank Army at the Voronezh front as an infantry soldier and took part in battle of Kiev and later in battles in Berlin and Prague. During the last days of the war, he was in Prague. After the war, he continued military service in the Navy, served on the cruisers Nahimov and Kuibyshev. He immigrated to Israel from Kishinev in 1990.

Matvey Gershman, 90, poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Gershman joined the Red Army's air force in 1941. Later, he was transferred to the 5th Shock Army, and fought mostly in Ukraine, after which he joined the 8th Guard Army and took part in the Battle of Berlin, including the famous battle for the Reichstag. Gershman immigrated to Israel from Gomel, today's Belorussia, in 1990.

Aharon Kavishaner poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Kavishaner joined the Red Army in 1942, as an air force mechanic and served in the 4th Ukrainian Front, a Soviet army group. Kavishaner immigrated to Israel in 1991.

A woman looks at men praying from behind a metal screen at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City on April 11, 2013. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to consider liberalizing access to the Western Wall, officials said on Wednesday, citing concern that police-enforced Orthodox controls on women worshipers alienate Jews abroad.

Israeli women pray at the Western Wall on April 11, 2013. Israeli police have detained five women for performing religious rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men. A police spokesman said about 120 woman arrived for their monthly prayer service Thursday and five were detained for wearing prayer shawls.

A woman is arrested for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall on April 11, 2013.

A couple covered with a 'Tallit' (traditional Jewish prayer shawl) pray at the Western Wall on April 11, 2013.

Women pray at the Western Wall on April 11, 2013.

Police officers detain an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man at the Western Wall on April 11, 2013, after he burned a book belonging to the Women of the Wall, a group opposed to police-enforced Orthodox controls at the Jerusalem holy site.

Four generations of the Zimanenko-Rozin family pose in their Moscow apartment on Nov. 11, 2012. From left: Mark Rozin, 47, Daniil Rozin, 11, Lev Rozin, 24, Anatoly Rozin, 78, Geda Zimanenko, 100, Luiza Rozina, 78, Maya Rozina, 8.

Maya Rozina, 8, and Anatoly Rozin, 78. Anatoly says he remembers being exposed to "everyday" anti-Semitism since childhood when neighborhood children called him and his brother names.

The family drink tea at their apartment in Moscow.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man and his children push a baby stroller with palm fronds to be used to build a Sukka in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Sept. 28, 2012.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man inspects the Etrog (Citron), one of four plant species to be used during the celebration of Sukkot, in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, on Sept. 27, 2012.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men check etrogs, a lemon-like citrus fruit, for blemishes to determine if they are ritually acceptable, before buying it as one of the four items used as a symbol on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on Sept. 27, 2012.

Ultra Orthodox Jews attend Siyum Ha'Shas, a celebration marking the completion of the learning cycle of the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of oral Jewish laws and traditions passed down from generation to generation, at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, on July 30. Each of the Talmud's 2711 pages is studied in sequence, one day at a time, in a process that lasts about of a seven and a half years. more than 30,000 people attended in the event.

Ultra Orthodox Jews attend Siyum Ha'Shas, a celebration marking the completion of the learning cycle of the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of oral Jewish laws and traditions passed down from generation to generation, at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, on July 30.

Ultra Orthodox Jews attend Siyum Ha'Shas, a celebration marking the completion of the learning cycle of the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of oral Jewish laws and traditions passed down from generation to generation, at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, on July 30.

Ultra Orthodox Jews wait to enter for Siyum Ha'Shas, a celebration marking the completion of the learning cycle of the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of oral Jewish laws and traditions passed down from generation to generation, at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, on July 30.

Ultra Orthodox Jews attend Siyum Ha'Shas, a celebration marking the completion of the learning cycle of the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of oral Jewish laws and traditions passed down from generation to generation, at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, on July 30.

Two Jewish settlers watch as movers, not seen, employed by the Israeli Defense Ministry carry out furniture from an apartment in the Ulpana neighborhood in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit El, near Ramallah, on June 26.

Jewish settlers and movers carry out belongings from a settler's apartment in the Ulpana neighborhood in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit El, near Ramallah.

A mover employed by the Israeli Defense Ministry moves belongings out from an apartment as two neighbors emotionally talk after they embraced on the staircase of their nearly empty apartments in the Ulpana neighborhood.

Israeli settlers wrapped in a tallit, or prayer shawl, is hugged by a child as he prays in front of houses in the Ulpana neighborhood of Beit El settlement.

A Palestinian worker emerges from a sewer pipe near two Jewish settler homes in a new neighborhood being established on the outskirts of the Beit El settlement.

Families evicted from the Ulpana neighborhood move into temporarily housing in the nearby settlement of Beit El on June 26. This is the first day of the evacuation, during which 33 families will be moved several hundred yards to a temporary settlement located inside a military zone.

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews participate in a prayer rally and protest against the Israeli government's intention to recruit Yeshiva students to the army and civil service, in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on June 25, 2012.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray early on Monday morning in the Sabbath Square at the heart of the Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem during a protest against the replacement to the Tal Law, that exempts ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva students from mandatory military service.

An Ultra-Orthodox man wearing burlap as a sign of mourning takes part in a prayer rally in Mea Shearim.

Boys watch from the sidelines of the rally.