The world of Israeli culture said goodbye today (Thursday) to the TV and film personality, Yigal Shilon, who passed away yesterday at the age of 78. Shilon, one of the pioneers and leaders of the thriller and hidden camera genre, a genius director and one of the pillars of Israeli entertainment, was laid to rest in Yarkon Cemetery.
His body was wrapped in a Hapoel Tel Aviv scarf, and the eulogy stand – a Hapoel shirt, befitting the devout and red fan he was.
The funeral was held in the presence of many men and women from the world of culture and entertainment, family members, colleagues and friends who came to accompany him on his last journey. Among the artists and creators who came to pay their last respects: Edna Lev, Eli and Mariano, Tovia Tzafir, Eli Yitzfan, Avi Nir, Molly Segev, Moshe Adri, Assi Cohen, Yeftah Klein, Hanoch Rosen, Meir Israel, Ron Huldai, Hali Goldenberg, Oded Paz, Erez Tal, Shlomo Artzi with his children: Shiri, Ben and Yonatan, and the brother of the deceased – Dan Shilon.
Zehava, his wife, paid tribute to him: “My Yigal, he and I are a love and life story of 56 years. The enabling, supportive and respectful partner who knew how to give me my place and live the life I asked for by his side. The secret of our relationship and the name of the game was partnership, and for that I Thank you and cherish.
Even the medical deterioration did not prepare them. Yigal Shilon’s family members at his funeral
“Many know the man with the cigar, the famous Yigal, but first he was a warm and devoted father. He also made sure to hug and kiss the crowd and the people who stopped him in the street. After the disaster that befell him, as soon as he opened his eyes he said: ‘I ate her, but I won Quality time with you. It’s a sentence that I will never forget. Thank you for everything you have left for me, I miss you already.”
Eyal, his son: “There’s nothing like funerals – a supportive crowd, everyone comes from home, laughing is not allowed, but Yigal’s specialty was laughing at funerals. Do you think that Yigal would want you to cry? On the contrary. He would say: ‘With us, the customer always laughs.’ Yigal would collect and build a bank Laughter, I recorded Yigal laughing cleanly. More than anything, I loved laughing with my father, laughing to the sky, and here’s an example, and everyone is welcome to join in with a big laugh,” he said, playing Yigal’s recorded laugh. “My father taught me everything about everything. I loved being with him the most in the world, I loved him. I photographed him the last night of his life, from Besut. We watched TV and had fun.”
Yaron Shilon, his son: “I’m very much like you. I don’t know a child who didn’t go to school and come to work with his father, and it was really natural for you. How much you loved to photograph, to document. To see the beauty of every person. How much you loved people. You were a person who very ungrudging.
“He was the smartest father, the most talented, the most loving grandfather. A few days before you left I had the privilege of being alone with you in the hospital. You opened your eyes and asked me, ‘What about Hapoel? We won today, but Maccabi lost,’ I replied, and your smile returned To himself for a moment. Then I played the tracker and Sheika Ophir and you even laughed that was the last time I saw you laugh.
“I remember you so vividly. Like we’re just driving in the car and listening to songs and songs together, or sitting in Bloomfield together. Since you fell five years ago, it’s been hard for me. I once said it was hard for me to see Superman in a wheelchair and I know you were mad at me. Even very , but you didn’t stop loving me. I wish I was as good as you were to my mother. You didn’t go away from madness or insult. You went your way. I love you when the family is by your side.”
Tamar, his daughter: “I hoped you had prepared us for this long enough in advance, but there is no way to prepare for such a difficult separation. Thank you for teaching me to fulfill my dreams and do what I love to do. To be good in my own right. I was privileged to be the daughter of the smartest man I knew and a father with a heart Huge. Thank you for being an amazing grandfather, you left us memories that will accompany us all our lives.”
Michal, his daughter, also paid tribute to him: “I like to get up late and every day at exactly 11 I call my father. The call is quite regular. In recent years, every time I haven’t slept well, so have you, and vice versa. Your rolling laugh, which I think I also got, makes I’m happy. You made me laugh the most. I don’t know what exactly happened, but at some point you became my best friend. Only you and I talked about everything We’re done and I can’t finish without you.”
Dan Shilon, his older brother: “I’m sure it’s not real and in a moment you’ll take the tallit off your body, look at us and say again: ‘I worked for you,’ while in the background we hear the music of misses. My grief and that of my family is dwarfed by the grief of this damned war, In front of the thousands of wounded and the hundreds who fall and fall in this war, because there are those who do not want to see an end to it, my dear brother, there were days when the Shekinah did not sing so much among us, but these were tiny background noises compared to the depth of the connection between us with whom I can laugh in Yiddish ? Who will I laugh with? Please I’m coming after you?”
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