Hutzot Hayotzer 2007

Photo of Star of David puzzle is courtesy of David Goodman whom I met yesterday at Hutzot Hayotzer Fair in Jerusalem near my son’s Sukkah Lampshades booth.
David has there a booth selling puzzles.

Use these six identical pieces to build a Magen David – 6-pointed Star. That’s pretty simple! Well, there’s another solution. Can you find it? That’s not so easy…

David Goodman develops designs and manufactures puzzles in different levels of difficulty and has workshops dedicated to puzzles.

David Goodman
Beit Shemesh
POB 4623
972545713877
97229992179
wdpuzzle@netvision.net.il

Welcome Paper Cut

Star of David on a welcome paper cut made by Zipora Ne'eman
The Israeli center of paper cuts
Shderoth Halamed Hay 9,
Haifa, 32202 Israel
Tel: 972-4-8121036
cell: 972-52-2257676

Return To Zion In Compession

Photo of Stars of David on a bookplate by E.M. Lilien made for Dr. Hellmann is courtesy of bookplates collector Bob Weinberg
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The Hebrew letters are from the Amidah (18 blessings):

may our eyes behold you return to Zion in compession

We see an old bent Jew sitting in the barbed wire which stands for the Diaspora while an angel points at a Hebrew peasant cultivating the land of Israel.
The same illustration with the words the fifth congress of Zionists in Bazel is maybe the most famous illustration Lilien ever made.

Hebrew shepherdess

Photo of a shepherdess holding a lamb inside a Star of David frame on a bookplate designed by E.M. Lilien is courtesy of bookplates collector Bob Weinberg
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Ex Libris Leo Winz

Photo of Stars of David on Ex Libris of Leo Winz designed by E.M. Lilien is courtesy of bookplates collector Bob Weinberg
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Lilien's bookplate for Dr. Simonson

Photo of a bookplate for Dr. Emil Simonson made by E.M. Lilien is courtesy of bookplates collector Bob Weinberg.
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The Stars of David are used here to frame the Hebrew name of the book’s owner. On top the title from Psalms 137: 5,

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

E.M. Lilien is entitled the First Zionist Artist: e.g.
The latest Lilien catalogue, published by the Open Museum, Tefen (1997), is entitled E. M. Lilien: the First Zionist Artist.
In 1988 there was held a Lilien conference at Ben-Gurion University.

The Holy Symbol Of The Prophet David

Harun Yahya published today on The American Muslim website a Call To The Israelis to end the conflict with the Arabs by understanding that The fundamental values of Israel are also sacred to Muslims. In the KoranThe word ‘Israel’ is the name of the Prophet Jacob. The Magen David is the holy symbol of the prophet David for Muslim  too. So why hate each other?