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Mossinsohn, Ido

Mossinsohn, Ido


Ido, son of Esther and Yigal, was born on January 14, 1941 in Kibbutz Na’an. When he was eight, his family moved to Moshav Beit She’arim, and when he was thirteen, he moved to Kfar Hayarok. From his youth he loved nature and would often go out on his own for walks. He loved the marvels of the man-made technique, and in the rooms he worked and worked hard to build electronic devices. As a student, he was interested in film and theater and often participated in student performances at the school. When he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, he was accepted into the Armored Corps, which was very popular both in the army and among the civilian public, and his talent for acting was fully expressed, and after he was released from regular service he became a professional actor and participated in many plays in the theaters, including the Cameri Theater. And a unique moral personality, which one of his good friends described best: “The outstanding feature of his personality and the prevention of his contact with others is undoubtedly the attribute of giving that he is blessed with … his ability to give without thinking of change, in every situation and every person … Really convincing … no one of his ways of acting was ever And his great personality was composed of small daily details, of interpersonal behaviors … In human relations he did not seek the one-time, the transient but the ordinary, the constant, the unchanging, and only there he brought about the full realization of his ability “He went to the United States as part of a tour of the play” King Solomon and Shalemi the Shoemaker. “At the end of the tour he decided to stay there for study purposes and spent two years in New York studying film photography. The war. He was accepted as a regular member of the Cameri Theater and played there until the Yom Kippur War broke out. During the war he was able to serve in the theater, performing before the IDF soldiers, but he chose to join a combat unit that was attached to it as a soldier, and when the fighting broke out his unit was sent to the Golan Heights. For three days the battalion assisted armored units in repelling Syrian attacks. On October 10, 1973, the fourth day of the war, when the Syrians retreated deep into their territory, the battalion was attacked by the enemy planes, which damaged the mortar position under Ido’s command. He was not a man of war; But when he had to go he went, and the war demanded him as a victim. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. His friend said: “As an artist he did not leave behind artistic possessions, books, paintings, etc., but I believe that his artistic work, his existential truth, he cast indirectly in the Lev of everyone who came into contact with him … and this is the precious estate he left behind when he left – Will be forgotten. ” Of blessed memory.

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