Star of David drawn on an envelope from 29.1.1937 is courtesy of Dobush from Kfar Aza. This envelope was sent from Palestine, Texas, to Mr. Horowitz. The sender added to the American stamps also two British mandate stamps. Dobush added that Palestine, Texas became known after 1.2.2003 following the crash of space shuttle Columbia, in which was Ilan Ramon. The debris of the space shuttle fell near this city.
Star of appears on an art work by Drora Weizman, one of a series of postcards sent to her daughter. Drora wrote to me:
In January 2003 my daughter was recruited to the Israeli Army, and during a year of her studying in a military course, very incommunicado from home, I prepared for her postcards every day, and this was the only art that I could create at that same time, a sort of dialog between art and everyday life. While the words told what happened at home, the imagery discovered contents that were beyond the words.
Size: between 8.5 x 15 cm and 20.5 x 16 cm
Copyright: Drora Weizman 2008
On September 2006 I wrote that I’d like to buy Chinese Checkers for my little private "museum" of star of David stuff. This week my son bought it for me at Chutzot Hayotzer Annual Fair at Jerusalem, Israel.
A yellow badge is attached to many of the figures in Benjamin Pelegs’ The Last Road. The figures are marching to their death (symbolized by the black background) in an endless circle.
Here we see only a small part of the work, but you can see the whole high resolution picture on Flickr, by clicking the command “all sizes” right above the picture. You are invited also to see more holocaust paintings by Benjamin Peleg at
http://flickr.com/photos/zeevveez/sets/72157606720060091/
Copyright: Benjamin Peleg 2008
Picture of Magen David is from the painting workshop of Israeli Mandala expert Ofira Oriel. Participants were religious women. The workshop was dedicated to learning about the meaning of the Magen David along with creation, and prayer to find inner balance and peace, which are symbolized by the Magen David.
Zoom in by clicking the all sizes command above the picture in Fickr
Copyright: Ofira Oriel 2008
The Israeli Decoration for British Mandate Prisoners has a blue Star of David on the background of a jail. Picture is courtesy of Tal Inbar. This decoration is granted to underground anti British Mandate prisoners who spent more than 6 months in jail.
Stars of David appear on a series of artworks (shoulder straps, medals and ranks) by Israeli artist Drora Weizman who wrote in the caption for her exhibit “March” in Tel Aviv Artists’ House on September 2006 (Treasurer : Daniel Kahana Lewinson):
In the beginning of the summer I collected the obsolescent shoulder straps of my domestic soldiers in order to put on them pencils and colors, in the spirit of the bible verse about swords into plowshares and shoulder straps into pens. I wanted to praise and to adorn, and on the way to let some steam out. I wanted folly, and some fun; I wanted to move the subject from its gloomy source; to end a chapter, to call for another order. To do an act of insurgence, and at the same time to say thank you. Victory Marsh to survivors!
Suddenly, a war broke up in the north (in the south it was all the time on low fire). It was clear that there’s a new need to prepare new shoulder straps and ranks to mark the ups and downs of the national moods.
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Copyright: Drora Weizman 2008
I like the direction Drora points upon. Hence everyone can imagine to himself shoulder straps according to his own personal taste and needs. I, for instance, imagine shoulder straps of the Israeli futuristic army of peace, and on them the word peace without quotation marks in different languages and with psychedelic colors.
