This blog (by Zeev Barkan) is dedicated to the Star of David, its history, its various meanings and usages in different cultures. It includes thousands of pictures of Star of David, six-pointed stars, hexagrams, Solomon's Seals, Magen Davids and yellow badges,and served as a resource for three books and four art exhibitions.
A few days ago I went to photograph books that carry a Magen David on their front cover in the annual event called Hebrew Book Week, which started on May 28th at the Old Railway Station in Jerusalem, and look what I found: Magen David designed only from horizontal lines on a collection of articles published in the memory of the late Israeli Minister of Education, Zebulon Hammer.
A few days ago I went to photograph books that carry a Magen David on their front cover in the annual event called Hebrew Book Week, which started on May 28th at the Old Railway Station in Jerusalem. On the both of Yad Ben Zvi I found these two books that carry a Magen David on a Synagogue. Inside the white book, which is about Tunisian Jewry, there was an article about the yellow badge in Tunisia with a photo of a five-pointed star.
A few days ago I went to photograph books that carry a Magen David on their front cover in the annual event called Hebrew Book Week, which started on May 28th at the Old Railway Station in Jerusalem. On the booth of Zalman Shazar Center publishing house, I found this rare image of A Bird Surrounded By a Magen David, along with an old clip from a Zionist Congress, and a nice design of a Magen David near the American Flag.
Art: war night
& Artist: Orna Adoram
I shot this photo at the Star of David Album exhibit in the Journalists' House in 4 Kaplan, Tel Aviv, Israel on 17-4-2008.
Art: the hope
& Artist: Nava Sidon
I shot this photo at the Star of David Album exhibit in the Journalists' House in 4 Kaplan, Tel Aviv, Israel on 17-4-2008.
Photo of Rasta Lion Solomon’s seal was taken by Hayim Shtayer at Tel Aviv, Israel, April 2008
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008
See the Israel 60 logo in Arabic at the top of our Prime Minister's office web page. It makes the impression that an Arab boy is playing joyously with a blue ribbon, celebrating Israel’s Independence…
I’d like to take a photo of this logo – but where can I find it? Is anybody using it, or is it a joke?
The truth is that the six-pointed star belongs to the Muslims not less than to the Jews, since the beginning of Islam until today, but it has a different name: Solomon’s seal. After the founding of Israel the six-pointed star became so identified with Israel that Arabs began erasing their six-pointed stars, as long as they could take them off without collapsing their Mosques...
