Olaf Scholz, German Social Democratic Party (SPD) Chancellor Candidate and Finance Minister attends an Election Campaign Event with Franziska Giffey in Berlin. Photos by Omer Messinger

The Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) project is the initiative of artist Gunter Demnig, meant to commemorate those persecuted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. The blocks have the names and fate of the person they commemorate engraved into a brass plate on the top of each Stolperstein, and are laid into the pavement in front of the last voluntarily places of residence of the victims of the Nazis. The specific block of Mrs. Metz was an initiative of Tal Alon and Olaf Kühnemann who live down the street from the house of which she was deported to Theresienstadt Ghetto, where she died. By Omer Messinger

an election campaign event of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) at Bebelplatz square In Berlin, Germany, August 27, 2021. Germany's federal elections are due to take place on September 26, 2021. by Omer Messinger

Germany, August 17, 2021. About 1000 people gathered in front of the under the call "Airlift now! Create safe escape routes from Afghanistan!", the spontaneous event was organized by Seebrücke and several other human-rights organizations. Photos by Omer Messinger

Photo coverage of Party leader and Chancellor candidate of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), Armin Laschet attends an election campaign event near the Glienicker Brücke in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany August 13, 2021.

60 years to the construction of the Berlin Wall Berlin, Germany, August 12, 2021. The order for the start of the construction of the Berlin wall was issued on 13 August, 1961. The barrier which consists of roughly 43 kilometer of concrete wall, watch towers, check-points, barbed wire and mines, creating a border strip separating the former Western Allies' enclave of West Berlin, from the rest of the city under DDR control. The wall stood until the 9th of November, 1989.

Berlin, Germany, August 01, 2021. Several​ thousands of participants, among them corona-skeptics, anti-vaccination activists, Querdenken (lateral thinkers) movement supporters, marched through sever​al locations in the German capital in protest of coronavirus restrictions. German police managed to contain the protesters in some locations but as the crowd scattered and then re assembled spontaneously little to no police presence was noted. Earlier in the week both local authority and the police banned the protest, statin they pose a risk to public health and safety.

July 18-19, 2021- An unprecedented downpour led to flash floods in the West German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. The heavy stream in some areas devastated whole villages, causing severe damage to infrastructure. Current reports indicate more than 150 people are dead and about a hundred still unaccounted for.

People protest against the laying-off of a Gorilla Delivery Company employee outside the company's warehouse in Berlin in Berlin, Germany, June 10, 2021. The demonstrators demanded the re-hiring of an employee named Santiago, claimed to be fired during a probation period in the company, calls for additional employees rights were also heard.

Israeli Jews and Arabs take part in a demonstration for co-existence and the end of the war in Gaza, on a bridge between the Jewish city of Rosh HaAyin and the Arab city of Kafr Qasim, Israel, 5 17, {year}. The partnership initiative is independently organized by residence of the Arab city of Kafr Qasim along side residence of Jewish city of Rosh HaAyin and the surrounding Kibbutz communities (Einat and more).

Several neighborhoods in the northern Israeli city are being visited by families of wild boars. Many of the animals felt safer to come out of the Carmel woods surrounding the city in search for food, as most people were confined to their homes due to covid-19 lockdowns. As Israel slowly returned to normal life, following a large scale vaccination operation, human and animal encounters became more and more common.

On a Februar day images of a dead swan stuck in the ice of the Landwer canal started to appear in the social networks. With in a day flowrs were dipersed around the carcas, and the site of death became a point of interest to the people walking along the frozen canal, with many try to speculate the cause of death, assuming the cold contributed as Germany was experiencing extreme winter weather as part of a polar vortex, with temperatures going well beneath freezing. After 3 days local authorities removed the swan from the ice and closed the section under the bridge to prevent people from gathering on the ice in one spot. On August, comment was left unter a post with one of the images on my account: "I passed that bridge when he was still alive...he flew to pass underneath the bridge but it was pretty dark already and he crashed against the bridge leaving his neck broken. We couldn't help him as the ice was still too thin to walk on it. Was very sad" yet I cannot confirm it.

A view of the Brandenburg Gate during snowfall at the central Mitte district in Berlin, Germany, February 09, 2021. Germany is experiencing several days of sub-zero temperatures strong winds and snow.