Does not respect the memory of the President of the United States:
Travelers who came to the Aminadav Forest, where there is a memorial site in memory of the President of the United States John Kennedy, discovered that the signs indicating the AHMAs, the trees planted in his memory - were displaced and soiled with feces.
The Aminadav Forest is located in the Jerusalem area, it is a large forest that covers about 7,000 dunams.
The forest is identified with the "Kennedy Hand", an unusual monument (in the form of a chopped tree trunk) commemorating the President of the United States John (Fitzgerald) Kennedy who was assassinated in November 1963.
Canadian Hand Apprenticeship in the Aminadav Forest,
American government officials, as well as relatives of the late president, were invited over the years to plant trees in his memory in the compound, including his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who visited Israel in 1978 and planted a tree near the monument.
In 2006, the actress Sharon Stone came to Israel as a guest of the Peres Peace Prize Center and she also planted a tree by Kennedy's hand.
A marble stone was also placed next to each tree explaining who the planter was.
US Senator Edward Kennedy planting a tree with Kennedy's hand,
It is not clear whether the damage and neglect to which travelers were exposed last weekend - is the result of a human act or whether time has taken its toll.
According to those travelers, the National Fund for Israel is neglecting the place.
Dan Erez, a history buff, came to walk the place with his son and said: "I went in and looked for the trees planted by the Kennedy family in the past. When I looked, I saw that Jacqueline Kennedy's sign was missing. I looked for it and suddenly I see it thrown upside down face down. I picked up the sign and returned it to the place. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It's just disrespectful, the other signs are also full of bird droppings and dirt. This place has historical importance, it's our commitment as humans - otherwise these things disappear from history - it will lose the context between the tree and the sign. In the United States It wouldn't happen. We have to arrange it nicely, respectably, so they can't move it."
The memorial plaque of Kennedy's widow, photo: The memorial plaque of Kennedy's widow
The sign of the president's widow, photo: Gan Erez
The National Fund for Israel responded: "The claims that the National Fund for Israel disregards the heritage and does not maintain the site are unfounded and unsubstantiated. In recent years, KKL-Junk has promoted a long and complex planning procedure, with a budget of millions of shekels, to upgrade the Yad Kandi site.
The procedure includes a number of things, including: upgrading the lower level of the site and turning it into a visitor center, general renovation of the monument (the sculptural structure in the shape of a stumped tree) itself, upgrading the picnic parking lot (where there are also trees planted by Achaim and family members) and making it accessible to people with Disability and upgrading the set of access roads to the site and parking there.
As part of these works, the signs will also be renewed, including the sign next to the tree."
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