This is not just a heartwarming picture. At a time when we see the madness on the college campuses in the United States and the world's hypocrisy regarding Hamas, it is also an important image. 4-year-old Avigail Idan in the arms of US President Biden.
"And here the child asks." This is what it says at the beginning of the Passover Haggadah, before “Ma “Nishtana”. The children, the next generation, need to ask their parents questions, their parents, in response, need to answer and explain to them the world, the reality, the optimistic story of Passover that has been giving hope for thousands of years, a story that reminds us that in the end good triumphs over evil, and humanity prevails.
And here is a girl who has no parents to ask them questions. Avigail's father, the photographer Roi Idan and mother Smadar were murdered on October 7th at Kibbutz Kfar Azza, and Avigail herself was kidnapped to Gaza.
And now she is in the arms of the president of the world's most powerful superpower, and the difficult questions echo in the Oval Office of the White House. "And here the daughter asks", will the world even know how to clearly distinguish that Avigail is on the good and right side of history, and that the other side is the enemy of all humanity?
