Today is International Children's Rights Day, declared by the United Nations in 1989 when it adopted the Convention on which experts worked on its behalf for many years. 54 sections, most of them bureaucratic, that did not advance the situation of children in the world. The proof that none of the honorable signatories to the Convention upheld the basic rights of our children who were slaughtered in their beds and did not respect any of the punctuation marks that adorn it in order to send a Red Cross representative to 32 of Israel's children who were kidnapped in their pajamas. Not to mention a life-saving drug. Not to mention returning them to their home, which is the State of Israel, because their physical home was burned.
Since the outbreak of the war, a kite project has been waving on the Internet from the Djanogly Gallery in Jerusalem, the only gallery in Israel for children, "Every Child Must Have a Kite," in which we called on children from all over the world to write a prayer on a kite and upload a picture of themselves with the prayer kite online. Praying for the kidnapped children, and for the children in general.
On November 10, we were supposed to open an exhibition created by the Polish Adam Mickiewicz Institute on the book King Matthias, written by Janusz Korczak, and Democracy. In preparation for the exhibition, we printed 500 kites with a phrase Korczak said during his visit to Kibbutz Ein Harod in 1934 - "Every child needs a kite," a phrase symbolizing the hope that all children deserve.
Korczak articulated the expression of hope for all children in the world's first Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1929, which he called Magna Carta. The two orphanages he established and managed in Warsaw on the eve of the war, the Christian orphanage and the Jewish orphanage, operated according to this convention.
17 simple paragraphs that summarize a broad worldview that sees the child as a whole being, even if he is shorter than us. Even if sometimes he is less comfortable and has difficulty expressing himself. He believed in children and believed that children's society, with proper education, could run the world better and build a more beautiful world.
The reality in which children, especially orphans, lived in the 20s was harsh. Poverty, disease, orphanage. The tragic end of Korczak, who went with his Jewish children to Treblinka, is well known.
Until October 6, it seemed that the world of the last century was no longer relevant for our children in the State of Israel. A welfare state that likes to grumble and squabble over trifles. On 7 October, we received a painful reminder that it is our duty to ensure the rights of our children. It is our duty to give them hope. Kite.
Korczak articulated the expression of hope for all children in the world's first Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1929, which he called Magna Carta. The two orphanages he established and managed in Warsaw on the eve of the war, the Christian orphanage and the Jewish orphanage, operated according to this convention
More than 4,000 children have written prayers on kites so far. Today we will arrive with the prayer kites and the children of evacuees from the north and south to the Western Wall and try to score the gates of heaven.
Because even when our kidnapped children return, they will need hope. They, and the new orphans, and all the other children who were instantly returned to the Diaspora and became Judean children in their own country.
It is time to return to our origins, to Korczak's first charter, the one that gives hope and protection together. And I wish the prayer kites would reach wherever people want to educate their children in this spirit and give them hope.
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