Inbar Haiman, 27: Graffiti artist, design student was ‘sweet and funny’

Inbar Haiman, 27, from Haifa, was captured and murdered by terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7 and her body taken to Gaza. Her remains were returned to Israel by Hamas in October 2025.

Inbar was hired to attend the rave to help anyone at the party feeling distress, and also brought some of her artwork to try and sell. When the attack began, she tried to leave via car but realized there was a huge traffic jam and returned to the site of the festival, hiding first under the stage and then in the bushes.

Inbar later decided to flee through the trees but was caught and shot by terrorists and taken away on a motorcycle. Her family found footage online the next day of her being kidnapped while unconscious.

In December 2023, the IDF determined that Inbar had been murdered and that her body was being held hostage.

Her remains were finally returned to Israel by Hamas on October 15, 2025, two years after she was killed – the last female hostage to be returned. She was laid to rest in Petah Tikva on October 17.

She is survived by her parents, Yifat and Haim, her brother, Ido, and her boyfriend, Noam.

Inbar was born and raised in Petah Tikva, the oldest in the family, and attended local schools. While in high school she focused her studies on film, and was also part of an arts and culture youth center in the city, first as a participant and later as a counselor.

After high school, Inbar completed a year of national service in Jerusalem, mentoring creative students at the Keshet school.

She then enlisted in the IDF for her mandatory service, joining the Caracal infantry combat battalion and serving as a commander for three years.

Inbar was studying visual communications at the University of Haifa’s School of Design, formerly known as WIZO Haifa, where she met her boyfriend, Noam. Inbar was slated to begin her fourth year of studies just a few days after she was killed.

She was also a prolific graffiti artist, spray painting areas around Petah Tikva and later Haifa under the moniker “Pink.” Inbar was always creating and upcycling, making gifts for loved ones and selling her wares.

Inbar was also a huge fan of the Maccabi Haifa soccer team, and had tickets to a game for the day she was abducted and killed. She also loved to play Dungeons and Dragons and board games with friends.

“Inbar and I have been very close since the first day we met,” her boyfriend Noam told The Guardian after she was abducted. “One of the reasons for that – besides the fact that she’s beautiful and charming – is that she’s truly, truly an amazing person. She’s kind and helpful and positive, and she’s an amazing artist and sweet and funny.”

“She’s a really good friend,” he added. “She’s always there taking care of other people and putting others first. You just want to be next to her.”

Her mother, Yifat, told the National Library that her daughter “loved people without judgment. She touched so many people. She helped people.”

She said the pair would often “sit and talk and open our hearts… She wasn’t only my daughter. She was my friend. She told me her secrets. I’d sometimes reveal, too. That wasn’t to be taken for granted. We’d discuss everything.”

At her funeral, her father, Haim, said Inbar was “a girl of endless giving, freedom, light and love.”

“How can I part from you when I feel like you’re still alive?” he said. “I remember our hikes every Saturday, when we would ride bikes in the orchards behind home. I remember tying your hair in ponytails and taking you to kindergarten. Your lively laughter, your powerful hug — I remember every moment, my beautiful girl.”

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