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David Sussman talks about Oct. 7 attack Sussman said, so instead they detonated the bombs outside, killing three people and injurResidents of the South Shore ing dozens. “I hadn’t actually become a are continuing to support Jewish unity and community pride citizen of Israel (yet),” Sussat home during the ongoing man recalled. “I was there for a good time, not for a long time. I Israel-Hamas war. The South Merrick Commu- was just having the best time, nity Civic Association wel- living on the beaches of Tel Aviv, bartending. comed David SussWhy would I want m a n , o f D av i d t o b e a n y wh e r e Sussman Israel else?” Tours, to its first But the attack meeting of the year on Mike’s Place on Jan. 17. A Boschanged him, he ton native and an said. At age 27, he Israel Defense Forcjoined the IDF in es veteran who has an artillery unit, lived in Israel since DAVID SUSSmAN and was called up t h e e a rly 2 0 0 0 s, David Sussman to serve in the 2006 S u s s m a n s h a re d Israel Tours Lebanon War. As a his experience of longtime resident the Oct. 7 attack by of the country and Hamas — and what life has been like in the months a veteran, Sussman said he had since. He has led efforts to raise seen Israel attempt ceasefires money to help those affected by many times with Palestinian authorities and other outside the war. In Sussman’s early days liv- threats. “For whatever reason, Israel ing in Israel, he worked as a bartender at an establishment has never been able to finish called Mike’s Place. In 2003, two the job because of exter nal t e r r o r i s t s f r o m E n g l a n d pressures,” he said. Israelis, and Jews around entered Israel with British passports, planning to blow the world, deserve to live freely themselves up inside the res- and safely, Sussman said, withtaurant. They couldn’t get in, Continued on page 12
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t’s that unity that’s going to enable us to heal.
Courtesy Mitchell Siegel
Mitchell Siegel made a large butterfly out of scrap metal he found in his work as an electrician, and donated it to temple B’nai torah in Wantagh.
Electrician Mitchell Siegel creates art out of scrap metal By PARKER SCHUG pschug@liherald.com
Mitchell Siegel of Levittown has spread his wings by combining his passion for creating art with his profession as an electrician. During the summer, Siegel installed his first art piece at his place of worship, Temple B’nai Torah in Wantagh. The piece was made of scrap metal — which would have otherwise been discarded — that he took from his job sites. “All of a sudden this whole sculpture thing came about, and it was something that
I never realized that I had in me,” Siegel said of starting his artistic journey. Bellmore resident Susan Salem, a garden enthusiast who turns community green spaces into gardens across Nassau County, helped Temple B’nai Torah transfor m unused nursery space into a functioning garden. After the garden’s installation and a few functioning seasons, Siegel wanted to create something to decorate the space. “He came to see the garden, and he told me what he did, and that’s so incredible Continued on page 9