President of the State Yitzhak Herzog arrived today (Wednesday) for a tour of the opening of the school year in the city of Beit Shemesh as the guest of Mayor Shmulik Greenberg. The President spoke with first-grade students of the Hasidic Chaidar in the city and sang with them "Bringing Them Out of Slavery to Redemption" - a prayer for the return of the kidnapped people held by Hamas. The President told the children: "You are brothers and sisters and children of the State of Israel. The fact that you are praying so hard for the abductees to return to their homes as soon as possible is a very great mitzvah. "Because everything must be done to return the abductees to their homes, as quickly as possible. To be brave and daring to return them and bring them out of slavery to redemption, as you said. And as quickly as possible. And I want to say thank you because in this way you are fulfilling a great mitzvah of love for Israel.".