In the video: students from schools in Jerusalem and Sderot in a KKL-Junk planting activity/Editor: Gilad Man Mannheim
Just before Tu Bashvet arrives, we arrived in Jerusalem to closely observe an activity organized by the Kimat Israel Fund for school students from Jerusalem, Sderot, as well as students who were evacuated from the Gaza Strip due to the security situation.
We are in the Asbestos Park with school students from Jerusalem, and in fact we are bringing back a long-standing tradition here - Planting with students at 2 Bashvet," said Yifat Ovadia Loski, chairman of the KKL-Junk board, who also referred to the organization's commitment since the war began on October 7. "From the first day of the war, KKL-JV evacuated residents, supported and provided an envelope To this day we do this and really accompany them and give them all the required educational package."
"We want to return Atara to its old days - for the children to go outside, feel the soil, plant trees and connect with the outdoors," said Hadar Abrahami, director of the Education and Community Department in the KKL-Junk Education and Community Division. "They have a variety of stations and basically every child will leave here at the end with a plant A little and a seedling."
"Tu Beshvet, which is the festival of tree planting, is a festival of planting, planting hope, planting roots in the land," added Anat Gold, director of KKL-Junk's central region. "Jerusalem has always been planted.
Mountains around it, but planted cities
are also the landscape, it's the heritage, so planting in this place only improves."
And what do the students think of the activity? Watch the full article in the player above.
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