Hanukkah celebrations around the world - in pictures

Orthodox Jewish men at a mass prayer in a yeshiva in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood before a traditional candle is lit for Hanukkah Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

A man passes by candles lit for Hanukkah in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

The National Menorah is lit for the first night of Hanukkah on the National Mall in Washington DC Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

People celebrate the first day of Hanukkah, at Nyugati Square in Budapest, Hungary Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

Laser beams creating the image of a large lit Hanukkah menorah are projected on the Hiriya landfill, a former waste disposal site, now called the Ariel Sharon Park, near Tel Aviv, Israel Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

Foreign migrant workers from the Philippines celebrate an annual Christmas-Hanukkah party in Tel Aviv, Israel. The occasion helps children bridge their parents' background with the Jewish culture learned in schools Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

A Jewish seminary student lights a candle for Hanukkah in Ashdod, Israel Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

Rabbis Yehuda Teichtal (left) and Schmuel Segal pray as they erect a large nine-armed candleholder – a hanukiah, or menorah – before the beginning of Hanukkah, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty Images

Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler lights a candle on a large menorah in downtown Warsaw Photograph: Alik Keplicz/AP