The Star of Stars (like the Song of Songs, the King of Kings, The book of Books) on the shirt of new immigrants at the Western Wall
CC picture by "The Jewish Agency for Israel" From Flickr
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Next Week Time Magazine Front Page
Thanks to Dobush from Kfar Aza for the following link to Next Week Time Magazine Front Page
(19.9.2008)
Depicting Half Star of David with barbed wire.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Strong Nape Tattoo
Hayim Shtayer sent me this Nape Star of David Tattoo picture along with another picture of a big sign with the words: Strong Home Front makes You Win the War. In Hebrew the same word (OREF) is used for Nape and for Home Front. The common denominator is pride, which seems to return to the heart of the Israelis as a result of the Gaza War consequences.
Picture shot by: Hayim Shtayer
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Happy New Year in the Middle East
Graphic Designer Hayim Shtayer sent me this card (reflecting the current events in Gaza Strip) with the following explanation:
Yesterday I got this Happy-New-Year-in-the- Middle-East Card, which was designed by my graduate student Natalie Yackoby, who learned in the Wizo Design Academy in Haifa, Department for Graphic Design. In this work Star of David motives are noticeable.
Copyright: Natalie Yackoby 2008
studio: Natka Creative Design
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Documentation of Graffiti Reactions to Rabin’s Murder
Hayim Shtayer went in November 1995 to Kikar Malchei Yisrael in Tel Aviv, the place where Yitzhak Rabin was murdered, and documented the spontaneous reactions of the Israeli public as they were written on the walls there. In the picture above we see a white Magen David below the caption: "you were born for peace".
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008
See the whole collection on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeevveez/sets/72157608679326292/
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The National Committee for the Jewish Soldier
Picture of a Star of David on a poster of The National Committee for the Jewish Soldier is courtesy of Dobush from Kfar Aza, Israel. The National Committee for the Jewish Soldier was founded in the 1930th and operated until the end of WWII.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
I Swear Not to Leave Israel
Star of David "I Swear" medal from kibbutz Tzeelim Musem.
Copyright: Boaz Krechmer 2008
The museum shows metal works from the beginning of the previous century starting with works of Boaz’s grandfather, Samuel Krechmer, who was the main manufacturer of coins medals and emblems in Israel. The words I Swear Not to Leave Israel are taken from the biblical verses of the Spies Affair in the Book of Numbers. Although the medal is antique the message is actual.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Lion with a Star of David Israeli Flag Proposal
Lion on a Star of David.
On May-June 1947 The Temporary Israeli Government published an add calling for proposals for the design of the Israeli flag. They got 164 proposals and here is one of them.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Flag Proposal-2
Seven golden Stars of David on a white six-pointed star.
On May-June 1947 The Temporary Israeli Government published an add calling for proposals for the design of the Israeli flag. They got 164 proposals and here is one of them.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
Flag Proposal-1
Menorah on a Star of David Flag Proposal.
On May-June 1947 The Temporary Israeli Government published an add calling for proposals for the design of the Israeli flag. They got 164 proposals and here is one of them.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
Saturday, July 19, 2008
The Three Israeli Captives
Three Stars of David mark the absence of the Three Israeli Captives in Amili Gelbman’s work titled The Three Sons. Since the work was exhibited in March 2007 Kidnapped soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser bodies were returned to Israel, but we are still praying for the return of Ron Arad and Gilad Shalit.
Copyright: Amili Gelbman 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Logo of the Year of Zionism
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs published on its website in 1998 the Logo of the Year of Zionism which
consists of six colored triangular sections composing the Star of David. Each triangle of the logo, which was selected by the Israeli public, symbolizes a different aspect of the Zionist experience:
* A blue and white triangle symbolizing the Israeli flag;
* A red arrow pointing to the East - the "mizrah" and referring to the future;
* An orange triangle representing the desert and efforts to make the desert bloom;
* A triangle with purple dots representing the grapes brought back by the spies who scouted the Land of Israel and found a "land of milk and honey";
* The Hebrew letter "aleph" representing the rebirth of the Hebrew language; and
* The green sabra plant which has come to symbolize the modern Israeli.
The Mess
Star of David Mess photo was taken by Hayim Shtayer at the exhibition of the graduate students of the department for graphic design in the Wizo Design Academy in Haifa where he lectures.
Designed this mess logo (expressing the messy situation in which the Israeli State finds itself on its 60th birthday) Maya Sarfati, one of these graduate students,
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008
Courtesy of: Maya Sarfati
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Yellow Shield of David
Photo of a yellow Shield of David is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The gate is at Shukri 11 in Haifa.
Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.
Decorated Gate
Photo of a decorated Gate with a Star of David is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The gate is in front of the building in Zebulon 11 in Haifa.
Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
1926
Photo of the date the building next to Shukri 11, Haifa, ended above a Star of David engraved in stone is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.
1925
Photo of Star of David engraved in stone - surrounding the date the building on Shukri 11, Haifa, ended - is courtesy of Amit Mendelson.
Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Breslau Car
Breslau Dancers car decorated with Stars of David in Jerusalem near the Municipality Building at Safra Square on June 3rd 2008.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Fire Banners
Copyright: Anat Massad 2008From: Dr. Batya Brutin, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: "Second Generation" Israeli Artists" in the catalogue exhibition: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: "Second Generation" Israeli Artists, Budapest: Peter Wilhelm Art Projects, p. 23
A different approach to the number we see in Anat Massad's work A-22761 from the exhibition Please Come with White Shirts of 2003 which features her mother's camp number. The work is composed from digital photographs of fire banners, which she set on fire in an open field at a fire ceremony she held. The fire banners included a Star of David as the symbol of the Jewish people and the number A-22761, which simultaneously symbolizes Auschwitz and her mother's private fate both in the camp and her hardships in integrating into Israeli society. She also included short phrase to express the personal and general connection between the Holocaust and the establishment and rebuilding of the state of Israel and her parents contribution to the building of the State.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Gush Katif Stamp
Photo of Star of David Shaped Hesder Yeshiva building in the Jewish settlement Neve Dekalim on a postal stamp that will be issued tomorrow is courtesy of stamp collector Dobush from Kfar Aza. Designer: illustrator & designer Aharon Shevo.
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