"Beer in memory of them"- a moving exhibition:

The surprise attack on the seventh of October, left us all stunned, bereft of any comfort in the great darkness.

Everyone who was murdered or fell left behind a family, dreams and ambitions that they will no longer fulfill, a life story that deserves to be told so that his life that was taken from him at once was not in vain.

At the beginning of the academic school year, the students in the visual communication track, engineers at Shankar, received an exercise: to find a way to commemorate the murdered and the fallen, and above all to give each student the space to express himself personally, through his creativity and inner angle, and thus the "beer in their memory" project was born, within the framework of which the students designed the label The beer bottle in memory of the fallen and murdered, when each student focused on another fallen or murdered. The choice of beer as the basis for the project is symbolic, although beer is identified with the entertainment and night culture, but is also linked with "raising a glass" to life or memory.

Kafir Meman, senior lecturer at the Shenkar Engineers and curator of the exhibition: "In order to design a label that most accurately defines that person who falls or is murdered, the students went through a shocking and layered creative journey, an in-depth study of each person who was murdered or fallen, identifying unique characteristics in their character and observing them as a whole world. The translation of A lively human figure into a graphic symbol built from text and shape is a complex task that requires summarizing an entire world while preserving the spirit and essence of man.

The discussions and exposure in class to the students' deliberations show the depth and sensitivity with which they approached this task." After the beer bottle labels were printed and stuck on the bottles, the need arose to set up the exhibition and expose the works to the general public, as the exhibition is an important and essential step in continuing the process of commemoration and collective memory.

The exhibition is presented at Shankar Handesaiim, exhibition space 115, open for free from 12.03.24 to 22.03.24.

Among the fallen immortalized on labels:

Shani Lok, the 22-year-old young woman whose story of her abduction to Gaza captured the world's headlines after a shocking video of the October Swearing was released in which Shani is seen being brutally led, unconscious and injured, on a Hamas van in Gaza and instantly became one of the symbols of the October Swearing, was commemorated on the capital of "Shan " by student Gaia Flexin.

Inbar Himan, 27, was kidnapped on October 7th from the party in Ra'i when she was caught by two terrorists who put her on a motorcycle and kidnapped her to Gaza, and finally she was murdered by Hamas in Gaza. Inbar loved to draw graffiti on the walls, a week after she was kidnapped her friends went into the world of graffiti in a global campaign, while using the name Pink?, which she would sign on all her works. Now, the student Shira Kaz has immortalized Inbar on the "Pink" beer.

Amir Fisher, a fighter of the commando unit in Dovdvan, who was killed on the cursed Saturday of the Seventh of October, in an encounter with terrorists in the Gaza village. 22 years old when he died. The student Rotem Mor Yosef commemorated him on a "Fish" beer, in memory of the nickname his best friends in the Dovdvan unit called him.

Ofek Rousseau, a combat diver in the 13th flotilla was killed on the first night of the war. 21 years old was in Naples. Ofek was called with a handful of commando fighters to the Otef residents, where when they were few against many, they managed to rescue entire families, women, old people, children. In the midst of the fighting, Ofek was called to help a soldier who was mortally wounded, under fire and with courage he treated the soldier and even managed to direct the evacuation, until he was injured when his body was used as an ambulance for the wounded he was treating. The student Itai Elimelech commemorated Ofek on the "Rousseau" capital.

Yanai Kaminka, Commander of the Rookie Department, Home Front Corps Training Base in the Zikim camp. 20 years old was in Naples. On the morning of the 7th of October, Yanai and the other commanders and officers made a quick decision that the recruits did not have the ability to deal with this complex situation, and they ran to all the peripheral positions in the base and sent the recruits to a safe place, to shelters.

At first Yanai settled in a position facing the sea but when he received a message that one of the commanders who served under him was wounded, Yanai ran into the fire to save her, in this position Yanai and two other commanders fought a hard battle in the end they fell but thanks to them and the other commanders in the various positions the base was not captured. The student Yuval Cohen commemorated him on the "Yanai" capital.

Ido Rosenthal, was the oldest fighter in the Sheldag unit, the commando of the Air Force. 45 years old in Naples. On the seventh of October Ido was thrown into combat, between Kibbutz Bari and Alumim Ido and the Sheldag fighters identified 30 terrorists who left Bari towards Kibbutz Alumim, attacked them and managed to kill ten of them, one of the terrorists who came from the side fired a volley and Ido was killed on the spot. The student Lior Eisenberg immortalized him with the label "Crido", that's how Ido was called by his friends and acquaintances.