Golda Meir Shirt

A Star of David appears on the sleeve of a Golda-Meir-shirt made by Naomi Meiberg. Naomi Meiberg is a good friend of Drora Weizman, who told me that she wears this shirt as a delicate tattoo, and she likes this shirt, mainly on account of the modest place that the Magen David takes there.

Copyright: Drora Weizman 2008

Symbol of Ownership or Symbol of Coexistence

Picture of Magen David above the entrance to the Tomb of Shimon Hatzadik (Shimon the Righteous) in the old city of Jerusalem is courtesy of Anat Skili.
Copyright: Anat Skili 2008
Thanks to Dobush from Kfar Aza for referring me to her blog.
Shimon Hatzadik was the last of Anshei Knesset Hagedolah. Legend has it that he met Alexander the great in Jerusalem.
The Tomb of Shimon Hatzadik is a controversial place: Arabs and Jews claim ownership on it. I guess that this Magen David is meant to show the Arabs that the place is holy to the Jews. I am quite sure that the drawer didn’t know that the six-pointed star is Muslim not less than Jewish, and in fact it represents coexistence, but if one is satisfied with his ignorance why do I bother to disturb him?

Tombstone of a Jewish soldier

Picture of a Magen David mark on a tombstone of a Jewish soldier in the British Military Cemetery in Ramla was taken two years ago by Dobush from Kfar Aza.
Copyright: Dobush 2008

Dvora Morag, Decoration Committee

Stars of David appear on the work “Decoration Committee” by Dvora Morag.

Copyright: Dvora Morag 2008

Artist Dvora Morag teaches art at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, The Kalisher campus, 5 Kalisher Street, Tel Aviv.

Technique: Black paper clips along with colorful cellophane papers inspired by the aesthetics of Hanukkah decorations of elementary schools in Israel.

Concept: The work deals with the Holocuast. It includes images borrowed from different sources. These images are part of the Israeli-Jewish and, actually, the human consciousness. Among these images we find the main building in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as well as the boy from Warsaw Ghetto, raising his hands.

Such images are tattooed into our minds during our early childhhod, mainly through education in elementary schools. Later they blend and create new connotations.

The above picture is a detail from the whole work, which can be zoomed in by clicking the All Sizes Command above each picture in Flickr.

The Black that Hides Under the Light

Yellow badge with cuts in the canvas that reveal underneath a black background. The original meaning of the yellow color (light, life) was distorted by the Nazis and started actually to mean what the black color conveys: darkness and death.

Inspired by Italian painter Lucio Fontana.

Size: 50X50

Acrylic on canvas and cuts in the canvas

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008

Marc Ash

Star of David, yellow badge and Nazi concentration camp identifying triangles surround a square with the word Dieu (God). The square is a piece of Nazi concentration camp prisoners’ uniform.

Tous Ensemble (All Together) has a barbed wire circlet centered on a patch of striped fabric, like prison uniforms, stenciled with "Dieu ?"("God ?"). Surrounding them are more patches shaped in single triangles or pairs forming Stars of David in colors the Nazis used to identify which category (Jew, homosexual, gypsy, for example) qualified a person for a concentration camp or for extermination. The stenciled numbers 1 through 6 are scattered around, a recurring motif that I take to refer to the six death camps and the estimated 6-million Jews killed.

From: http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/article518349.ece

Palestine Magen David

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.