Graffiti tour following October 7 in Haifa

These guys from Haifa met at the WIZO high school in Haifa when they were still "kids." At first, they would paint here and there around the city, but the municipality didn't look kindly on it. Over time, they became more and more famous, and at the Wall Festival, they are invited to paint at several locations on HaNamal Street.

Later, they become a corporation called GHOSTOWN, the city of ghosts. Are they trying to hint at Haifa, perhaps?

They are very successful, not only in Haifa, editing music videos for bands such as U2 and Pearl Jam. But they always have a warm place in their hearts for the city of Haifa, which is why their beautiful murals depicting the city's history and utopian future can be found in many locations throughout the city.

A graphic designer from Haifa, she painted this beautiful woman for the Walls Festival. Like many of her works, it is reminiscent of Frida Kahlo.

Alin's works are delicate and beautiful, dealing with femininity, women, botany, flowers, and soft pastel shades. In this picture, she wrote to remember October 7.

Erez and Ziv, the brothers from the Simch family, painted many of their works in Haifa together, such as this one. The two came to Haifa from Carmiel, studied at WIZO College, and fell in love with the city. Since then, most of Haifa's streets have been decorated with their amazing paintings.

Each one has a place of honor with its own style and flair.

Fortunately for us, these guys stayed in town and managed to set up the Sira Collective at 21 Sirkin Street, with the aim of providing a kind of incubator for young artists in the city and publishing artistic projects in the city.

In the painting, torn posters torn from the walls show how hostile the world is toward Israel.

Maayan Bechar, owner of a gallery on HaNamal Street, initiated this moving corridor, in which 27 artists from Haifa and beyond painted what was in their hearts about a month and a half after the outbreak of the war.

I selected a painting depicting a can of Nirlat paint spilling out, and the shape in which it spills and even continues onto the hangar floor is in the shape of the Land of Israel.

Nirlat is the factory of Kibbutz Nir Oz, which, of course, burned down on October 7 along with the rest of the kibbutz. Nirlat has always supported local art and donated paints for this purpose.

As part of the Talking Walls project by entrepreneur Maayan Bechar, there are many paintings by artists who are not necessarily street artists. They are less well known.

This picture shows a drawing by Yarin Mansour, who is actually a software engineer working at a startup near the hallway where she drew it.

Her painting touched my heart especially, because it shows in a very painful and clear way all that was lost to the families of those murdered on October 7.

Guy Hayut captured himself and his feelings on October 7, the feeling of immense helplessness that was also felt by people who were not in the Gaza border area and felt that they were no longer protected in Israel.

The child he is hugging is his son, Alex. Peace to the child and his father! They are from Haifa and nothing happened to them, but the drawing certainly expresses the powerful feeling that every Israeli felt on October 7 and still feels today.