Last Friday, 350 children and their parents gathered for a special event which concludes the year they spent in KKL-JNF Wings class. The ceremony took place at Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv, where KKL-JNF, in collaboration with the Ganei Yehoshua Company, operates the "Birdhead" birdwatching park as part of the KKL-JNF Wings network that stretches from the Hula Lake in the north to the Birdwatching Park in Eilat.
The participants played a game that summarized the year, visited the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, and gathered for a concluding event at the Eretz Israel Yafa Center. KKL-JNF Vice Chairman, Mrs. Emily Levi-Shochat, and KKL-JNF Chief Scientist, Dr. Doron Merkel, attended the event.
Yaron Cherka, KKL-JNF Chief Birdwatcher, said, "The event summarizes a year full of activity in which we brought together hundreds of children and families from all over the country and from different groups, and connected them with Israeli birds and nature. In an era of a species' extinction crisis, and in a country as small as Israel, one of our missions is to create a faithful group of representatives – also young ones, in this case – who will work to preserve and rehabilitate the Israeli nature."
KKL-JNF Vice Chairman, Mrs. Emily Levi-Shochat, said, "The joy and enthusiasm that I see in the eyes of the children and families who take part in the Birdwatching Class make me personally happy, but more importantly, it testifies of the great importance of the environmental and educational work we do at KKL-JNF. I hope we can considerably increase the scope of this and other KKL-JNF Wings activities.