Alisia Levin, 34: Identical twin, sports trainer and single mother of 2

Alisia Levin, 34, from Karmiel, was murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7.

She attended the rave with her boyfriend, Steven Makarchenko, and the couple left the festival via car. Their car was later found abandoned near Kibbutz Mefalsim, and loved ones searched for any sign of them for several days. After a week, Alisia’s body was located and identified. Steven was also slain during the attack.

Alisia was buried on October 15 in Karmiel. She is survived by her son, Shon, daughter, Daniela, parents Yudmilla and Andrey, sister Yulia and her identical twin Lina.

A certified personal trainer, Alisia loved her career and was known all around the Galilee area for her work. She and her identical twin, also a personal trainer, dreamed of opening their own studio together. In February 2024, Lina turned their dream into a reality, opening up “Twins Fitness” in Alisia’s memory, decorating the studio with images of them together and dedicating it to her.

Alisia was also a doting mom to her two teenage children, whom she raised as a single mother, never letting them feel that anything was lacking in their lives.

“Alisia Levin was a wonderful person,” wrote her friend Eran Bluestein on Facebook. “I spent many hours sweating away at the Crossfit box with her. She always had an infectious smile and was always there to give a supportive nudge or egg me on when I thought I couldn’t take it anymore. She was beautiful and was always so full of life and joy.”

Her friend Liat Damti wrote online that Alisia “was a role model for all of us, a mentor in your soul.” She lived life “with joy and at a high frequency that everything was p-e-r-f-e-c-t. Working out in the first row with you always made me feel how much willpower I have and how much I really want it… My heart is broken, shattered, hurting, bleeding.”

In an Instagram post, Alisia’s identical twin Lina joked that in most of their photos together they weren’t facing each other, “since we both have the same good side,” and would argue over who would give in to the other.

“If only I could give in to you and take one more photo with you, one more memory, one more shared experience,” she wrote. “I miss you so intensely, the memories of you just choke me and are accompanied by pain that burrows into the heart.”

She wrote, “My love, my other half, my twin sister, I love you immensely. Thank you for all the strength, for the ability to keep going in workouts, you are with me in every workout class, allowing me not to give up or to break.”

“Thank you for your incredible kids, who are our kids, every hug from them fills me with unconditional love and I will never give up on them,” she added. “I love them with a full heart as if they were my own — I’ll never replace you as a mother but I will try to give them love that only a mother can.”

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