The hopes of three Israeli youngsters for world peace and for the day when Arab and Israeli children will play together are the subject of three stamps just released in Israel, it was announced here by the Israel Philatelic Society. The set, entitled “Children’s Drawings on Peace,” shows Arab and Israeli children holding hands against the backdrop of flowers and doves. The drawings for the stamps were created by Dorit Assayahu, 13, Orit Assayahu, 11, and Tova Weisler, 13.
When the stamps were issued, the three artists signed letters written for them by the editors of “Ha’aretz Shelanu” junior newspaper and addressed to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, President Carter, Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, King Hussein of Jordan, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad. The letters, which included a set of the stamps, stated in part.
“We have worked especially hard to create these stamps to show you the great effort, or rather our great effort in Israel to bring forth peace; and bring together the Arabic and Israel people through understanding. We close with the fervent hope that the prophecy of Isaiah will come to pass: ‘Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more….”
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