Lexicon of Zionism

A unique design of the Magen David appears on the Hebrew Efrayim and (his son)  Menachem Talmi Lexicon of Zionism, which was published in 1978 by  Sifryat Ma'ariv, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Copyright: Zako 2008

Martyrs of Rhodes And Cos

The base of this monument to the 1604 martyrs of Rhodes and Cos who were murdered in Nazi death camps has the shape of a Magen David in addition to the frequently used white on black Magen David which is engraved on the column. Picture is Courtesy of “templar1307” from Flickr”

From Dark to Bright

Painter Meir Salomon shot these four Magen Davids reflecting different stages of light at the area of Jaffa Flea Market, Israel
Copyright: Meir Salomon 2008

Varanasi Swastikas

Hexagram framed by many Swastikas appears in a shop in Varanasi, India.

In India the meaning of these two symbols is quite different that their Western interpretation.

Copyright: Dr. Gilad Galili 2008 (I cropped the hexagram from a larger image he sent me)

Thanks to Dobush for referring me to this interesting image.

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/

Gederah Bell

Magen David appears on the old Gederah Bell that was used to gather the citizens more than 100 years ago. The picture was shot by Ya’acov Shkolnik. Copyright: Ya’acov Shkolnik 2008

I thank Dobush from Kfar Aza and Oded Israeli for referring me to this historical image.   

Byzantine Hexagram Oil Lamp

Hexagram appears on Byzantine hexagram oil lamp from Shlomo Moussaieff collection.

Otto Friedrich August Meinardus,  a German Coptologist and pastor (1925 – 2005),  mentioned a few other Greco Roman terra cotta lamps  in his article "The Hexagram or the Magen David in Byzantine Art" (in the Bulletin of the Christian Archeological Society 8 (period IV)(1975-1976) p. 97-100):

Excavated in Jerash – Goodenough, I, 161; VII, 358; I:142; VII, 251

Excavated in Samaria – George Andrew Reisner et al, Harvard excavations in Samaria 1908-1910 Cambridge 1925 Vol. II Pl 96 c.

Excavated in Ephesus – Forschungen in Ephesus, osterreichisches Archaeologisches Institut, Wien, Vol. IV, 773, Pl. V

Excavated in Athenian Agora – Judith Perlzweig, the Athenian Agora – Lamps from the Roman Period first to seventh century, Princeton 1961, nos. 353, 2440.