Sharon Hirsh, 45: Single mom of 3 'never gave up on life'

Sharon Hirsh Uzan, 45, from Ramat Hasharon, was murdered by Hamas terrorists while trying to flee the Supernova music festival on October 7.

Her family said she left the party quickly with the start of the rocket fire, as she had always feared such sirens. Stuck in traffic trying to leave and unaware of what lay in wait, Sharon made a u-turn and headed for the Mefalsim Junction, but then stopped her car and ran toward a bus stop bomb shelter. She was shot dead in a volley of bullets, her family said after viewing video footage of her final moments.

She attended the rave with her friend Daniel Ben-Senior who was also murdered that day. Sharon’s body was only identified several days later.

Sharon was buried on October 12 in Ramat Hasharon. She is survived by her three sons, Itay, 21, Koren, 19 and Noam, 15, as well as her parents, George and Dalia, and her three siblings, Yaron, Michal and Hadas.

She grew up in Ramat Hasharon, served her mandatory IDF service in the Logistics Corps and married not long after, at age 22. She had three sons and later divorced, raising her children as a single mom and eventually moving in with her parents.

Her family and friends said Sharon always loved to dance, from her youth until her very last day. She was a regular on the festival scene, embracing its ethos of free expression, celebration and letting loose.

Her oldest son, Itay, told Ynet that “my mom was a very happy person, accepting and accommodating, with zero judgement. We had a very unique relationship, as mother and son but also as close friends. She really loved to do good in the world, to dance, music, parties. She would party not infrequently at festivals, events, nature parties.”

Itay said the single-parent family never had much money, “but she always gave all of us the sense that she was a warrior who fought so we’d never feel like we were lacking. She always had a smile from ear to ear and good energies.”

Her son Noam told the Kan public broadcaster that he most misses “annoying” his mother. “I miss hearing her laugh, seeing her smile, I miss it in a way I can’t even describe.”

Her sister, Hadas, said on Channel 13 that Sharon was “happy all of her life — with all the difficulties of raising three kids, a single mom, living with her parents, it wasn’t easy, but she never gave up on life.”

The tribe of people who attend such festivals, she said, “are people of love and freedom, life is hard, this was their moment.”