West Bank Settlers Celebrate Purim

HAVAT GILAD, WEST BANK - FEBRUARY 22: (ISRAEL OUT) A Jewish settler child is wearing costume ahead of the Jewish festival of Purim as Israeli soldiers arrive to secure a Purim parade February 22, 2013 at the settlement outpost of Havat Gilad, West Bank. The carnival-like Purim holiday is celebrated with parades and costume parties to commemorate the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to exterminate them in the ancient Persian empire 2,500 years ago, as described in the Book of Esther. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)