The settlers believe in having big families. Here, friends and relatives of a Hebron Yeshiva student dance at his wedding celebration.

After prayers, the Anosh family in Bat Ayin sits down to dinner. Typically, this small community stays in radio and beeper contact with one another, out of fear of nighttime Arab attacks.

Guns are never far away from the settlers, including these students at the Hebron Yeshiva, adjacent to the Cave of the Patriarchs.

Ed Kashi is one of America's leading photojournalists. His work appears regularly in the National Geographic, Newsweek, the London Independent Magazine and other major magazines in the United States and Europe. His National Geographic cover story on the Kurds became a book, "When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds," published by Pantheon in 1994. Recent magazine spreads include a portrait of the African continent for Vanity Fair and one of California strawberry field workers for The Atlantic.

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