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People gather at night around the giant Christmas tree outside the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Israel's northern city of Nazareth on December 18, 2021. - With Israel closed to tourists and its citizens restricted from travelling abroad, the city of Nazareth was thronged the weekend before Christmas with Jewish Israelis seeking the holiday spirit. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

People walk past the giant Christmas tree outside the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Israel's northern city of Nazareth on December 18, 2021. - With Israel closed to tourists and its citizens restricted from travelling abroad, the city of Nazareth was thronged the weekend before Christmas with Jewish Israelis seeking the holiday spirit. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

People take pictures of a manger scene by the giant Christmas tree outside the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Israel's northern city of Nazareth on December 18, 2021. - With Israel closed to tourists and its citizens restricted from travelling abroad, the city of Nazareth was thronged the weekend before Christmas with Jewish Israelis seeking the holiday spirit. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

A Palestinian woman decorates outside her hairdressing salon ahead of Christmas in Gaza city on December 22, 2021. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Palestinians walk by a Christmas tree on a cold day in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 20, 2021. (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Indian boys dressed as Santa Claus participate in a procession to celebrate Christmas in Jammu, India, Wednesday, Dec.22, 2021. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Indian children dressed as Santa Claus participate in a procession to celebrate Christmas in Jammu, India, Wednesday, Dec.22, 2021. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

People visit a Christmas fair in the center of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during a frosty winter evening on December 21, 2021. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

Workers decorate the main Russian 28-metre-high New Year tree at the Kremlin's Sobornaya Square in downtown Moscow on December 22, 2021, with the air temperature at around minus 21 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

A man dressed as Father Frost greets people visiting a Christmas fair in the center of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during a frosty winter evening on December 21, 2021. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

Workers decorate the main Russian 28-metre-high New Year tree at the Kremlin's Sobornaya Square in downtown Moscow on December 22, 2021, with the air temperature at around minus 21 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)