Artist's work rises from the ashes of a kibbutz attacked by Hamas onto a museum wall

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From a distance, the new painting anchoring the Israeli Art gallery of the Israel Museum mesmerizes with its simple, but deep hues of red and black.

Step closer, though, and squint, and something else catches the eye: small but deep cuts, chipped into the canvas.

They're a reminder of what happened on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants launched brutal surprise attacks in Israel that the government says killed about 1,200 people.

But like the artist who made it, Ziva Jelin's painting Curving Road is a survivor of one of those attacks.

Hamas fighters killed dozens of people and kidnapped others, and burned and destroyed houses and other buildings in Kibbutz Be'eri, where 61-year-old Jelin has lived her whole life. But in the middle of the ash and ruin of her home, dozens of her works were found intact.