Every morning at 5 a.m., the gate of the Holy Sepulchre is opened for prayer. The custodian of the key is a Muslim family as Christian denominations argued over who should be in charge for centuries. Science suggests that the church actually stands at the location of the crucifixion of Christ, but it is uncertain whether he was also buried there. The first service of the day is for Armenian Christians.

Ofir works for the city's rubbish collection services. He gets up early to prepare breakfast and lunch bags for his seven children. If it were up to him, he'd have another one.

Rabbi Shmuel Stern begins morning prayers in Mea Shearim, while muezzin Sair and the Muslims at his mosque are just finishing theirs. The Orthodox Jews put on the traditional prayer shawl called tallit godol with the attached tzitzit, specially knotted tassels, as well as the tefillins: small boxes on leather straps, containing verses from the Torah on parchment. They wrap them around their arm, fingers and forehead.

Muhammed and Fadi of the hip hop band G-Town worked the whole night at the recording studio at Shuafat camp. Their message is that even though they come from a tough place, they love life and can make music. They see themselves as representatives of their neighbourhood, Jerusalem and Palestine, as "voice of the voiceless".

Bakers worked all night to prepare the traditional Kaak sesame bread. Now it is delivered on foot to the waiting customers. Cars wouldn't fit through the narrow alleyways of the old city.

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