The sound of welding, the unbearable heat and the sound of hammering and blow torches, is what it takes to turn "a symbol of death and destruction, into a symbol of light."
Israeli metal sculptor Yaron Bob, 47, has made it his duty to transform Hamas rockets and mortar shells fired at Israel, into beautiful Hanukkah lamps from his workshop in the south, just 2.5 miles away from the Gaza strip. Local police officers deliver shrapnel from rockets and mortars to his smithy, for him to convert something negative into something positive.
As the Jewish festival Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, fast approaches, Yaron is busy at work carefully crafting stunning Hanukkiyahs, a candlestick with nine branches that are used during the eight-day festival.
Hanukkah is a festival which celebrates the Maccabbe victory against the Greek army. After their triumph, they sought to light the Temple's Menorah (the seven-branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks. Miraculously, they lit the menorah, and the one-day supply of oil lasted for eight days until new oil could be prepared.