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Just as when he’s poring over the playbook, the bearded bookworm reads with pen in hand or ready to note something on his phone.

He is bearded, wearing black, and weighed down by grief.

Silver pearls glisten on the men’s foreheads and their eyes are sunken deep in their pale faces, framed in a stubble of beard.

"This is no ordinary tree. We're talking about history, about civilisation, about a symbol," the 52-year-old said proudly, smiling behind his thick beard in the village of Al-Walajah, south of Jerusalem.

A giant golden statue of the president towered over a street and bearded male belly dancers wearing green headbands were pictured on the beach.