Photo of the Day 436

Tomb of the Patriarchs, Hebron, West Bank, Israel, 1985

Photograph by James L. Stanfield

The disputed West Bank territory in the Middle East is home to many archaeological sites with religious and political significance for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Here, an Orthodox Hasidic Jew walks between two Arab men at the entrance to Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs, a sacred shrine that functions as both synagogue and mosque, sometimes in the course of a single day.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Israel: Searching for the Center," July 1985, National Geographic magazine)