Posters of late terror victim used to decorate Sukkot
Artist Na'ama Henkin, who was murdered with her husband in an October 2015 terror attack, designed a series of posters to decorate the inside of a Sukkah before her death. This Sukkot, more posters designed by Na'ama were discovered and several designers and artists launched a campaign to memoralize Na'ama and Eitam by producing Na'ama's works.
Na’ama, 30, and her 31-year-old husband Eitam, were murdered in October 2015 during Sukkot in a drive-by shooting attack by three Hamas terrorists on the road between Itamar and Elon Moreh in the West Bank while they were driving with their four children.
Both Eitam and Na'ama were artists, with the latter being a graphic designer and established a studio called ‘the laboratory’ in the settlement of Neria.
Shortly before her death, Na'ama designed a poster decoration for the Sukkah bearing the biblical verse, “Bind them all together (into) one grouping and these will atone for those” (Vaikra Rabbah chapter 30 verse 12).
After the murder, many such posters designed by Na'ama were discovered and several designers launched a project to memorialize Na'ama and Eitam by designing dozens of similar posters. The designers created a Facebook page entitled dedicated to the couple’s memory on which pictures of the designs were uploaded. Not all of the designers knew Na'ama personally, as evidenced by one of the participants writing on her own page: “Unfortunately I didn’t know Na'ama personally, but in my eyes she is absolutely an inspiration for a female professional, for a mother and a wife,” she wrote.
Another designer wrote, “I never knew Na'ama personally, but I did so on a virtual level. I always enjoyed reading her stuff; her thoughts, her interviews, her insights, both from a business point of view and a family point of view. For me she was an inspiration as a mother, as a business owner and as a person.”
Designer Ayelet Davidovich wrote, "One of the things I learned from Na'ama is to be a pious person everywhere."
