A massive mural that depicts the 4,000-year history of the Jewish people was unveiled in Mexico Sunday and will soon decorate the arrivals hall at Ben-Gurion International Airport.
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The mural – 44 meters long and five meters high – was painted by Mexican artist Julio Carrasco Bretón in honor of Israel's 75th year of independence as part of an initiative that began about a year ago with the blessing of President Isaac Herzog.
It was unveiled at an event attended by Foreign Minister of Mexico Marcelo Ebrard, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, and Isaac Assa, president and founder of the Israel Latin American Network (ILAN), and other senior government officials and heads of the Jewish community.
"Am Yisrael Chai" tells the history of the Jewish people from the creation of the first man to the establishment of the State of Israel. It includes depictions of the creation of the people of Israel, the forefathers, the Exodus from Egypt, the Temple, the prophets and monarchies, Spain, Hasidism, Zionism, the Holocaust and the early immigration to pre-state Israel.
Ebrard called the mural "historic" because "not only does it tell the extraordinary story of four thousand years of the history of the Jewish people, but it also synthesizes the relation between the Mexican people, the Jewish-Mexican community and the people of Israel."
Assa, in turn, said, "The people of Israel have come a long way over the generations, the Jewish people have contributed values of morality and social solidarity and innovation to all of humanity. We are preparing for a complex logistical operation to bring the mural to Israel. Whoever enters Israel will be able to see with his own eyes the story of history, the future and the significant contribution of the Jewish people and the State of Israel to the family of nations."
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