This is the story of Mona Silberstein, As everyone remembers the cult film “Peek”, It was a beautiful innocent girl managed to slip into the heart of Tel Aviv Ahbernz 70. Name, Between actors and intellectuals, Substance ended her life when she destitute, Until found by other companies 10 Days which lay dead in her apartment. “blue, White and yellow”: Article tenth series.
writing: Bar Zagha
Mona Silberstein was born in 1948, The only daughter of parents who immigrated to Israel from Romania. The original name was Ramon, But time is shortened and nickname “counter” Sticking to it. Childhood, Her father went to jail, What caused her to rebel and wander alone through the streets of Tel Aviv. Shame gnawed at her, And interviews given telling that by the age 12 Mother began “calm” Same with wine and psychiatric drugs. From, How drugs helped her escape from reality was short. When she was 14, Discovered the magic of bohemian Tel Aviv, She received her warm embrace.
Silberstein began to frequent the coffee “Kasit”, And very quickly formed around a big deal. She felt comfortable with the adult environment surrounding it, And for the first time reached the place made her feel like an equal. The coffee has become her second home, and despite the firm opposition of Horror, Counter teamed up with gang “hen house” Mythological. in the year 1966 Enlisted in the IDF”To, Although she did everything possible to avoid being drafted. She served close to home and was going out every night in a taxi from the base toward “Kasit”, Celebrates till the morning and return to the army.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly gave “Lhiton” in the year 1987, Silberstein said at the beginning of her wayward days. “When I got my group at Dizengoff, My life became one big party that starts and ends. They gave me the following formula: Celebrate and get drunk until fall, Then you can take three or four balls, Rentals passes and can continue to celebrate”.
Zvi dish: “In what time we worked together, I had a lot of fun”
in the year 1972 Played in the film worship “Peek”, And Zvi Schüssel remember her fondly.. In an interview with Pplus, Said the girl captured the hearts. “I remember she was the daughter of 16 or 17, a very pretty girl. She was a good actress and nice, And it was easy to work with. In what time we worked together, I had a lot of fun. Newspapers were writing that she uses drugs, It was known. After the relationship was severed, I heard she carried all sorts and smoke”.
In those years exposed to harder drugs Silberstein – LSD, Opium and other drugs bra, Regularly used in. Land awareness about substance abuse was not as high as today, When she noticed the drugs dominate her life it was too late. “The drug was the protector and my best friend. Sometimes he could be my lover. I found refuge in sharing my life people. I could not believe the lover and my best friend betrays me, Takes over me slowly, But steadily and methodically, The inside of the bone. I've lived recklessly. I did not see myself ever live after age 30. All the heroes of my time living sex, Drugs and rock and roll — dead.. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones and Jim Morrison.. I was sure breakneck pace of life, I will not live more of them. I knew it for sure so total, So I answered. Who did Account? Who cared if we would not? We've all really. Everything happens now. That's how I felt and believed”.
in the year 1977 In the movie “Operation Thunderbolt” Directed by Menahem Golan, But addiction interfered with photos. “On the set no longer functions as an actress. I functioned primarily junkie that needs to stay alive. Every time I asked for a break during filming so that someone could take me into town by car. I said it was because of my mother, At that time really became ill with cancer, But my goal was to achieve a drug, To be able to continue to function on the set. Then when I came back, I could not re-enter the scene professionally. On the other hand, I could not come to Menahem Golan and tell him: Excuse me but I can not work, Because I am addicted to heroin. There were players who participated with me in the film and knew me since I was 15, And they wanted to help. They took me aside one by one. I can not forget it. And I in mine. Give my usual answer: Everything is fine, And smiling. Inside the world in pieces. How can I help this person? Too bad I could not tell the truth then”.
Mona Silberstein M”To: “Those were the best years I can remember black”
When filming ended, Also declined Zilberstein's career and is rarely played more. Addiction became a full-time job. The people around her who chose to distance, Places that hosted it previously closed her doors and the absence of family or friends supported them, , The condition deteriorated. “Those were the best years I can remember black”, Told. “I got to the lack of physical control. I stopped paying attention to how I look, If I clean or unclean, I forgot what it Hygiene. One Day, I came Ditza coffee and cafe owner told me he did not want me to go back there. I did not know why. Then they told me I was sitting in the middle of the cafe spaced out and peed on myself. I reached the lowest level”.
On March 31, 1988, Passover night, Silberstein's body was found and she was 39 only. The body was found near a syringe and spoon, And the cause of death is an overdose of heroin. According to estimates of medical factors, Mona died ten days before the body was found by her friends Rachel Michaeli and Miki Ben-Canaan.
Miki Ben Canaan, Friend: “Men were taking advantage of it and steal it”
“She was an innocent girl, a girl 16 or 17. A group COOP took her under their wing, and I think they are also exposed her to drugs. She was a good girl, An only child of older parents, Very pretty and nice. After the group entered, Her condition began to deteriorate. She was full of confidence, Innocent as a child. She was laughing like a child, Crying like a girl, Laughing at the jokes of children”, Said Ben Canaan, Her friend and neighbor was the Silberstein. “She had an affair with Assi Dayan, Very passionate affair based on TomTom awareness materials. They were writing songs for each other”.
Before you knew it, It was known that she was using drugs?
“Knew it uses, But when we met it was clean. She had long cleaning times and then came the fall of repeated withdrawal. When she was drugged, People were doing terrible things to her”.
like what?
“Were taking advantage of it when they realized she was a drug addict. Men were cheated and stole from her, Really very nasty picture of mankind”.
Silberstein told herself past the hard times coming under the influence of drugs. “I was raped several times during the same period. I was under the influence of pills, On the verge of unconsciousness or swoon. Used it. Jewelry stolen from me. I would wake up and find myself in all kinds of holes and there is nothing on me. Every time an ambulance brought me to the ER and were performing CPR, I got angry: Where are my clothes? I disconnected infusion and runs barefoot taxi. Two days later, I'm back there in the emergency room, And another sister looks at me and asks: Woke up?”.
“I got to the emergency room so many times. One of these times, Could not save me. My pulse does not follow. The team determined that I am dead. They rang my parents to arrive before they remove me an autopsy. When my parents came to Ichilov, I was on the way to the refrigerator. Suddenly my father saw my hand out the sheet, And muscle moves. he said: She lives. My mother fainted place, The team ran back and I'm alive”.
Her friends from the group “hen house” Not help her?
“No, Years, no one was there beside her. We birth to five years and during this time no one supported. After all, why people closer to each other in this area? Usually of interest. She was initially 17, Beautiful Girl, Nice and sensitive who grew up under the shame of a father in jail. She grew up with a desire to older people protect her, And there were those who recognized the potential. She really loved them but they were not there to save her. They moved away from it at a later stage, That the drug caused her to be less attractive”.
“I really think that people should be followed when they see a young drug addict, Even this is not a popular opinion. When I knew her, She was no longer in contact with them despite the language and there also met them at random”.
She worked in those days?
“No, It did not work years. Who employ drug addicts?”
So where does the money come?
“Nov, Where? There were sad events where people took advantage of her and gave her money when completed”.
What do you remember of her death?
“It was the eve of Passover, and I was in the studio. It warmed. We lived in the same building, I was on the floor above it. I went to breathe the air that was hot, I leaned on the railing and a strong smell of a corpse risen Buffy. It was after a week during which I was looking for her because she disappeared. We talked about meeting, She was supposed to come to my studio and she did not come. I went downstairs knocking on the door and she did not answer, I checked if it is there whenever I went near her apartment. I realized that she must have gone to one of her walkabouts that this has happened before. She could disappear, Suddenly live with someone while she was drugged”.
“We saw her lying on a mattress, Bloated, Dead”
“Once the smell, I realized she was dead for several days and that's what I smell. I called Rachel who also sought the counter and had a key to her flat. We tried to open, But the key was on the other side of the door so we called the police. They came, Broke down the door and found her dead inside. Just then the door, All the people who fainted from the smell at the entrance to the apartment. Rachel and I felt a duty to go in and see her. We went inside for a moment, We saw her lying on a mattress, Bloated, Dead. It was a very sad story. Ten days ago she was a bad period and came to me to talk. We talked at length about her situation solutions, How we can release her from drugs and livelihood issues”.
Silberstein Although her life ended tragically, But the method led to Israel “12 Steps”, Used today in therapeutic settings across the country. “I was referred to a group of New York 12 Steps”, Said at the time. “I found that I did not have to deal with it alone. I have other friends who have exactly the same disease as my. program 12 Steps opened my eyes. If I speak today on drug sanely, It is only thanks to this program. Got clean all types of chemicals, Including headache pills. I found a job at an advertising agency, I live my life. My spine up”.
