Pictures of the Week: The Week in Pictures

Thursday Octoober 25, 2007
Ancient Sect
A priest of the ancient Samaritan community walks during the pilgrimage for the holy day of the Tabernacles, or Sukkot, at the religion's holiest site on the top of Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus. According to tradition, the Samaritans are descendants of Jews who were not deported when the Assyrians conquered Israel in the 8th century B.C. Of the small community of close to 700 people, half live in a village at Mount Gerizim.