I chose the hand because I think a hand represents being connected, working together and walking hand in hand. This represents unity and us working together as a community and this is what Israel and the Jewish community represent to me . I chose the glasses because some people can't see how hard we work and how hard we work to become one, a Nation and a community. They also represent how deeply you have to see to understand what is inside. The pencil shows that we can be whatever we can be and create ourselves all the time. If we can write it, we can be it or do it. The scissors represent how we cut or glued ourselves into a position and sometimes we can't just be ourselves and change who we are. This is exactly what we did in the Holocaust. We had to change our names, change how we looked and how we acted and where we lived. It is like our humanity was cut away but the reason there isn't glue is because we don't need glue to put ourselves together to put ourselves into a position that we would like to be in. We just need other people to help us. The beads that make up the 7 of the 78 show that just as beads get added one by one, we have to work together as one. Israel represents determination and perseverance because we worked for over 2,000 years to be a country and in the end, we are now one. At this point, nothing can change this. In any other place, people might not try to stick together as a team as we do because we have worked so hard and whatever happens can be seen as a small challenge and not as big as it used to be after all we have worked for and all we have done. It is just a small task in our history. Israel is always strong—and even stronger when the Jewish people are united. We need to stay true to who we are and to our Jewish identity, even when others try to destroy it from the outside I chose a Rosh Hashanah card that shows people dancing in a circle on the beach. The circle dance symbolizes unity, and it gave me the idea of a chain (beads). The people in the picture seem very united—they are holding hands and celebrating their freedom, just like on Israel’s Independence Day, when we celebrate the freedom of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.