John Kiss
Kiss distributed 200 of his illustrations among these pre-teens and their families. Kiss then created an art installation from the joint drawings of these 200 children. These illustrations, colored by the autistic boys and girls, were joined together to a large-scale mural. The mural, presented at Jerusalem's Western Wall, drew public attention to the cause of inclusion. Presenting the 200-piece-mural in front of Judaism's holiest site was to encourage Jewish reflection at what Kiss called "the dark rejection" of people with special needs, and to turn the page towards a more inclusive future. The autistic children who participated in the initiative were subsequently welcomed into the bar mitzvah ceremony.