The city of Sderot, in cooperation with the 7 Sderot Mall Center, on Monday, 28 Sivan, beginning at 5:00PM, will hold a kite-making workshop for the children of Sderot and the surrounding communities. The children will also hear interesting stories, legends and facts about the development of the kite. Each child will be able to make his or her own kite bearing a personal message. At the end of the workshop the children will fly their kites replete with positive messages, in a kind of therapeutic activity.

Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi explains, “As opposed to our neighbors from Gaza, who have turned the wonderful hobby of flying kites into an act of terrorism, with terrible damage to agriculture, the children of Sderot and the surrounding communities are returning the kite to its source – from preparation to flying it into the sky and hoping that it will not fall. We are busy with positive things and optimism and the desire that our children always be happy. I also call on the children of Gaza to enjoy playing with kites and not be drawn astray by terrorist elements. Ours are kites of life, not death.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)