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Draws at night: "Only in the hours that he fell" Israel today

2020-04-27T17:56:23.941Z


At 2:00 in the night, the painter Sarah Inseller knocked on her door and told her that her son Danny had been killed • "In the first few years I did not want to leave the art house"


At 2:00 in the night, they knocked on the door of the painter Sarah Insler's house and told her that her son Dani was killed in Sinai • "In the first few years I did not want to leave the house"

  • Can only draw at nights. Sarah Insler

    Photo: 

    Anat Sudai Elalouf

On February 5, 1984, fighter pilot Danny Insler fell in Sinai, near the Egyptian border. His plane is in Egypt. At 2:00 in the morning, they knocked on his parents' door and informed them of the heavy disaster. From that moment, for many years his mother could not sing, paint and paint teacher, touch a paintbrush or paint.

After a long period of abandonment of the painting, Sarah Insler decided to try painting again. Since then, she has been able to paint only at night, repeating again and again to that horrible night when her son fell.

"The night Danny fell, my husband, who was a physician and director of the women's department in Beersheba, was not home. I was just working on a panda-colored painting on paper, which I started a few weeks earlier," says Sarah (83). At 00:00, IDF representatives arrived with my husband. They picked him up from Beer Sheva. I stopped working on the painting and could not see it anymore. I immediately stopped painting. We demolished the studio, asked to throw everything. I called them 'The Unfinished Painting.' This painting is now in the Air Force Museum. It's part of Danny's memorial. In the early years I couldn't look at this painting because it reminded me of this awful hour. For years he has wandered among the 'white houses' in the country. "

Five years after the disaster, she gradually sang to paint. "The painters' association came to me, friends who taught me a painting, and asked me to come back to paint," she says. "They offered me an exhibition at the artist's house. They promised that I would not have to come, just give the paintings. In addition, Irit, the chairman of the Or for Families Association, contacted me and told me that she knew Danny because he was his MDS in a pilot course. She founded an association that helps For the bereaved families, we were immediately connected. It helped me come back to life. In the early years after Danny was killed I didn't want to leave the house. I started painting again, but I could only draw at night, when Danny flew and fell. I got up at three in the afternoon and my days turned upside down. My painting exhibition was opened at Basser Towers in Bnei Brak.

Tell me about Danny.

"Danny was a lovely kid. He was very interested in technology and studied at Ort Singlovsky. That area was in his blood, as well as the whole subject of flying and flying, and dealing with everything that came with it. He was a very technical person, very much liked this profession. To this day I don't know Exactly what was there, why he was killed. My late husband and son were interested when it happened, I chose not to know. "

How do you deal with the fact that you will not be able to get to his grave this year?

"In light of the situation, I accept the restrictions and understand the instructions. It was clear to me that they would not be allowed to go to the graves this year, so I went to the cemetery a few days ago."

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Source: israelhayom

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