Artist posts final Daily Postcard, ending project depicting hostages and October 7 dead

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29 January 2026, 12:51 pm

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Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center

On the left side, Engelmayer (middle) with the parents of Tal Keren, who was killed while fishing on Zikim beach by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy Tamar Engelmayer). On the right side, Engelmayer (left) with the father of Carmel Gat, who was taken hostage from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

Illustrator Zeev Engelmayer posts his final Daily Postcard a day after the burial of fallen police officer Ran Gvili, ending a project he began in the weeks after the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught.

The final postcard is a collage of many of the hostages who died on October 7 and in captivity, and former hostages. Engelmayer himself appears in the corner.

Engelmayer, popularly known as “Shoshke,” writes on Instagram: “The Daily Postcard. The last one. In this final postcard, I drew them around me, because they’ve long since become a part of me. I’m sitting in the corner, and I feel that they are with me. All around me are those who returned and those who did not return alive. Some of people who are very dear to me are not in this postcard, so maybe I’ll draw them as a continuation, something bigger. The Daily Postcard project ends today.”

Engelmayer adds, “Thank you for being with me and the colorful marker pens, every day with the painful and emotional stories, for the Daily Postcard. You are the people that I waited for. One day, lightness and kindness, and our ability for compassion and love, will overcome everything.”

The illustrator’s Daily Postcards embodied the horror, fear and sorrow of October 7 and the war in Gaza, with portraits of hostages and other victims and survivors of the war.

Engelmayer’s postcards became world-renowned, hung in public and private displays, and turned into placards and posters held by the artist and thousands of others at rallies and protests.