CHW mourns the loss of NBA student Inbar Haiman z”l

January 2024

Inbar Haiman was a 27-year-old art lover and graffiti artist, set to begin her 4th year of studies in Visual Communication at the Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design in Haifa. Inbar was among the young, spirited music lovers at the Nova Music Festival October 7. Just before sunrise, as hundreds of rockets were fired from Gaza, Inbar took cover under the stage until festival security told everyone to evacuate as quickly as possible. Inbar and her friends fled to the fields. After several hours of hiding, they were discovered and chased by Hamas terrorists. Threatened with a knife, Inbar was dragged by terrorists on a motorcycle into the Gaza Strip.

After 70 days in Hamas’ captivity, the IDF confirmed Inbar was murdered by her captors.

Inbar was a talented, multi-disciplinary artist by all accounts. According to the Head of the Department, Inbar is “gifted with a rare touch of creative magic. Her projects always appeal to a transcendental experience: how to render people to gain something extra transcendental. In places where you must invent, imagine, and describe completely amorphous things – her ability to create worlds ‘inside the head’ is at its peak. [Her work] is the kind of work you find in museums.” Inbar signed her pieces with the tag, “PINK,” the same tag used in the struggle to free her from captivity. Her boyfriend Noam Alon, whom she had met in the Visual Communication program, galvanized artists to paint the wall along Israel’s central highway with the words, “FREE PINK.”

Inbar is survived by her parents and brother and is remembered for her “creativity, selflessness, and joy for life.” May her memory be a blessing.

Read about Pink’s story in the ORAH
Times of Israel: Hostage Inbar Haiman, 27, Murdered in Hamas Captivity Officials Say