STORY: Every year the Jewish festival of Purim is a joyful celebration. It commemorates the time when the Jewish people were saved from annihilation by Haman (PRON HEY min) in ancient Persia. Students at the Sede-Boqer school for environmental education started their own tradition for the Purim festival called Adloyada. Adloyada is a Hebrew word for a cosmopolitan carnival — a parade of puppets and masks. The students used a variety of recycled materials to create fascinating and colorful presentations. [Adva Shechtman, Sede-Boqer School]: The Adloyada represents something special in the general atmosphere, which actually exists here the whole year. During Adloyada it reaches its peak of creativity, activity and its a very intense time for creating, creating and creating. The students use materials that are recycled daily, like bottles, irrigation hoses, paper, cartons and more. At the end of the process, the students take the materials to recycling centers. This way, they help protect the environment. [Muli Rubin, Manager, Sede Boqer School]: “What we see here is the top of our goals for educational and social action; we have been working on it for one and a half months. It’s a peak of educational creativity.” The students also come up with ideas for preserving materials and reusing them the next year. [Vered Ben Hemo, Attendee]: This is our first year here. It is stunning, astonishing, creative and fascinating. Well done! We were really thrilled and we really enjoyed …
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