Israel 60 logo in Arabic

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...

Maze

Maze in the shape of the Israeli National Emblem

Illustration by David Simonds

See:

http://media.economist.com/images/20080405/D1408LD1.jpg

Israel 60 Sunglasses

See:

http://www.russiatoday.ru/media/news/a/4822a620a9cdf.jpg

So cool!

Art & Artist, Dr. Martin Kieselstein

Art: "I was there, my soul and my heart were damaged".

& Artist: Martin Kieselstein

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 & Artist, Iris Yehezkel

Art: Peacock

& Artist: Iris Yehezkel

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 & Artist, Hedva Zloter

Art: about our situation

& Artist: Hedva Zloter

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.

Breslau Believer Dancing

Large Star of David shows on the shirt of a dancing figure of a Breslau believer on a poster calling for a celebration in Jerusalem marking the 60th year of Israeli independence.

Art & Artist, Ehud Schori

Art: Hanging on a Star of David
Artist: Ehud Schori
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 & Artist, Dvorit Ben Shaul

Art: King David

& Artist: Dvorit Ben Shaul

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 & Artist, Dick Ben Dor

Art: Genesis

& Artist: Dick Ben Dor

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 & Artist, Zvi Nadav Rosler

Art: Mousetrap

& Artist: Zvi Nadav Rosler

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.

Hava Yahav, Magen David – 2

Magen David joyful painting
Copyright: Hava Yahav 2008

Provocative Logo

The Logo of the Temple Mount Movement shows the Temple Mount without the Mosques, and the Hebrew words (see bold letters), which are taken from the Book of Numbers 13:30 call for action:

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it."

The message of the logo along with the caption provokes to remove the Mosques from the Temple Mount.

The Star of David shape of the Temple Mount appeared already in E.M. Lilien’s Ex Libris made for Prof. Martin Buber, only there the Mosques appear prominently.

The Heart of the Nation

The Hebrew words on the sticker says: "the heart boulevards of the nation". Even though I try to skip Israeli flag photos, since they show an independent symbol, I decided to include this one because it combines three symbols: the flag, the Star of David, and the heart. The complete message is: patriotism, love of one’s country.

Photo by Hayim Shtayer
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

Front of Red Magen David Building, Ashdod, Israel

Usually I don’t publish photos of Red Magen David, since I focus on the Star of David and the Red Version is a separate symbol, but this time I couldn’t stop myself because the design is so special. In this case not only the Star of David is red – the whole building is RED. It might influence other architects to design Blue Buildings to fit the color of our national emblem.

60th Independence Year Flag

On the road from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv are scattered dozens of Israeli 60 Independence Year Flags, starting at the exit from Jerusalem and ending at Shaar Hagay. Each flag is an ambassador of our national emblem, the magen David.

Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Yellow Badge above the word Remember on an Israeli postage stamp issued twenty years after the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps to commemorate the event.

Designer: Yaakov Zim

The Giving Of The Law And The Golden Calf-4

Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.

Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008

This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a tree, which looks like a prophet, holding in its arms an incomplete Magen David, which hints to the broken tables of the covenant. In the background we see a calf head- hinting to the Golden Calf.

The Giving Of The Law And The Golden Calf-3

Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.

Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008

This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a tree holding broken triangles, which reminds us of the broken tables of the covenant and of a broken Magen David. The tree reminds us of the Tree of Life.

The Giving Of The Law And The Golden Calf-2

Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.

Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008

This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a tree holding broken triangles, which remind us of the broken tables of the covenant and of a broken Magen David.

The Giving Of The Law And The Golden Calf-1

Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.

Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008

This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a head of a calf with a Star of David and an egg.

Painter Jacques Heller is the president of the Israel Miniature Art Society. He was born in France in 1925.

Daniela Klauzner, Marriage in Black

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Daniela Klauzner.

Copyright: Daniela Klauzner 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Technique: Two linoleum prints, one on yellow paper the other on gauze, glued one above the other.

Title: Marriage in Black

Artist’s Caption: My parents’ wedding on 14.5.1944, in the midst of WWII, in a synagogue in Budapest, Hungary. There was a rumor that young academic Jews will not be taken to forced labor camps if they marry, and since my father just finished his PhD in chemistry and since he and my mother were together for five years they decided to get married quickly.

Daniela Klauzner was a biologist until she started 11 years a go to create art. She lives in Natania.

Austrian delegate visited our exhibit in Safed

On 9 May 2008 five young Austrian politicians visited the Yellow Star exhibit in Safed. They met with a Holocaust surviver and with curator Reli Wasser.
See Photos from this visit (copyright: Ashley Wasser)

Head Tattoo

British singer Boy George got a huge Head Tattoo after he started to study the Kabbalah. He also has a cross on his right shoulder, and a lotus flower on the back of his head.

The problem of Jews with Tattoos

On a web page titled Jews with Tattoos there are a few Stars of David.

Rabbi George (Gershom) Barnard of Northern Hills Synagogue wrote that:

In recent years, both the Reform and Conservative movements have had to address the issue, and both of them forbid tattooing. 

An interesting point is raised on:

http://www.jordanelgrably.com/inyourfaith.html

Kaufman explains… that "a majority of young Jews have tattoos, ear-rings, nose-rings--this is a fact of life today. Ask any parent. So it hit me suddenly, of what use is this halachic law if it's going to exclude an entire generation from Jewish ceremony and tradition?"

Efrat Lavi - Shields For David

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Efrat Lavi.

Copyright: Reli Wasser 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: 60X70 cm

Technique: oil

Title: Shields For David

Artist’s Caption: The push for the birth of Israel after the Holocaust.

Efrat Lavi lives in Rosh Pina.

Holocaust, Second Generation

Yellow Badge appears on this work which is titled Holocaust, Second Generation
Copyright: Hava Yahav 2008

Gan Yavne Star of David

Theo Coster's Star of David sculpture at the entrance to Gan Yavne, Israel, looks different from every angel. I don’t know many sculptures that look so different from every angel...

Sacred Light From The Tabernacle

Copyright: Yaniv Shapira 2008
Yaniv Shapira created candlesticks based on researcher Uri Ofir's theory that
the candle holder in the Tabernacle had the shape of the Star of David
See his Film produced by "refresh dot co il"

Contact: Ronen: 0506797722

Nurit Izak, Flag

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Nurit Izak Pollatchek.

Copyright: Nurit Izak Pollatchek 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: 30X30 cm

Technique: oil

Title: Flag

Artist’s Caption: I made a series of flags in the basic colors – each one expresses another sort of pain.

Nurit Izak Pollatchek, b. 1967, Rehovot.

Sarit Gura, Beauty

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Sarit Gura

Copyright: Sarit Gura 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: 160X35 cm

Technique: oil

Title: Beauty

Artist’s Caption: The yellow badge is a symbol of pride, not shame. Exterior appearance is not telling who is a Jew –the Nazis checked four generations back. There is no way to know if the two anonymous women in my paintings belong to the Jewish people.

Alan Miller's Avatar

Copyright: Alan Miller 2008
Allan Miller likes tattoos. He published about 300 of them out of about 15000 other photos.
He even made his avatar in the form of a Star of David Tattoo.

Back Tattoo

Star of David back Tattoo
Photo: Alan Miller, Israel
Copyright: Alan Miller 2008

Arm Tattoo

Star of David permanent pendant patriotic arm tattoo
Copyright: Alan Miller 2208

Abandoned Synagogue

Picture of Star of David on an old Mezuzah: Hayim Shtayer
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer
Place: Kibbutz Regavim’s abandoned Synagogue

USA Israel Relations Tattoo

Copyright: Alan Miller 2008
From the comments at his Flickr page: "altefeigele" says:

The Tat suggests to me that the American Eagle is grabbing the Star of David in its talons and is prepared to fly with it somewhere, probably to the Eagle's nest to feed its chicks.

Alan Miller answers:

The guy is American and told me he got the tattoo soon after September 11th, 2001. It could be Pres. Bush getting his hands on Israel after his visit. Or the Israeli police getting their talons in Prime Minister Olmert. But I'll go with the guy's explanation.

Chai Tattoo

Chai inside a Star of David Tattoo

Copyright: Alan Miller

Yossi Regev, Never Again

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Yossi Regev

Copyright: Yossi Regev 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: postcard

Title: No More

Artist’s Caption: I created this work in 1985 and eventually it was published as a remembrance postcard in 1990, and it was distributed in a survivors reunion of “Buchenvald children” in Tel Aviv. My father was one of these “Buchenvald children”.

Orly Shafir, The Tree of Life

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Orly Shafir

Copyright: Orly Shafir 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: 50/70 cm

Technique: oil on canvas

Title: The Tree of Life

Artist’s Caption: The tree resembles the Jewish people. It is a big tree with deep roots. It continues to live and to grow even though all along history there were (and still are) attempts to remove it and to cut its branches.
Orly says that the yellow badge is a symbol of spiritual heroism, which is quite different from the military heroism.

Heavy Symbol Made From Basalt

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Chanoch Ben

Copyright: Chanoch Ben Dov 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: 170X85 cm

Technique: sculpture, Stone, iron, cloth

Title: Heavy Yellow Holocaust Star

Artist’s Caption: I wanted to express the heavy feeling that the Yellow Holocaust Star evokes. Above: six candle holder for the 6,000,000

The artist’s parents were East European Jews who survived the Holocaust.

The usage of Death camps’ uniform stripes is quite frequent in the artistic treatment of the Yellow Holocaust Star, and for some of the artists it is connected to the coat of many colors Jacob gave to Joseph.

The Star and The Sea

Photo by: Hayim Shtayer

Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

A sign with the drawing of bandaged fingers with a [red] Magen David (in black).

Synonymic Symbols

Map of Israel is a separare symbol, meaning more or less the same as the Star of David. I call these symbols "synonymic symbols" and there's a whole family of them: Herzl, Western Wall, Menorah, Ten Commandments, lions, the word Zion, Srulik... These symbols tend to appear in pairs and in triads in order to strengthen their mutual message.
Copyright: Alan Miller 2008 who has a whole series of photos of the Black Widow Rock Band

Lowest Moral Place In The History Of The World

Photo is courtesy of intuitive painter Rachel Ben Hur.
Copyright: Rachel Ben Hur 2008
Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: 30 cm x 30 cm

Technique: Photo processed in Photoshop and printed on canvas.

Title: Mother, life is infinite

Artist’s Caption: sunrise over the Dead Sea, and the Bulgarian equivalent of the yellow badge – the yellow button. The button belonged to my mother who lived in Bulgaria during WWII. She went to visit her husband. The train she was on was full with Germans. She was afraid that the button might clearly indicate that she's a Jewess and tore it off.

The Dead Sea along with Holocaust memories makes an interesting combination: it’s name reminds us of the 6,000,000, and that it is the lowest place in the world hints to the Nazi’s lowest MORAL place in the history of the world.

Alan Miller, What A Patriotic Shirt

Photo of a Magen David T-shirt from the street festival on Dizengoff

Copyright: Alan Miller 2008

Inside the Zero

Birthright Israel magen David logo inside the zero of the number 60, which represents Israeli 60th Independence Year

Thanks For Writing About My Project

Ruth Abrams wrote on Mar 24th, 2008 in Interfaith Family under the title

Web 2.0 Gives Us a Look At Some Jewish Art:

Among others, I’ve been following an Israeli photographer and blogger, Ze’ev Barkan, who posts and links to images of the Star of David. I was thinking about how many little Jewish children, especially those who are hungry for more Jewish knowledge, will look for “Jewish stars” wherever they can find them. It’s a way of feeling visible as a Jew in a society that might not see Jews. Sometimes the stars in Ze’ev’s flickr.com set overlap with images from other cultures, which is great for use on our site, where we celebrate interfaith families’ varied ways of sharing of heritage and history from both sides of their families.

Thanks Ruth, for your warm words about my project- you made my day!

Revenge

Photo is courtesy of Chen Peiper

Copyright: Chen Peiper 2008

Right now this works is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser. 

Size: 10 cm x 3 cm x 3

Technique: Fusing

Title: Shield of Hope

Miriam Cojocaru ,Holocaust

Photo is courtesy of Dr. (Inorganic Chemistry) Miriam Cojocaru

Copyright: Miriam Cojocaru 2 008

Right now this works is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser. 

Size : 98x66 cm

Technique: Digital print

Miriam Cojocaru was born in 1945 in Romania.

Miriam Cojocaru Dachau 1945

Photo is courtesy of Dr. (Inorganic Chemistry) Miriam Cojocaru

Copyright: Miriam Cojocaru 2 008

Right now this works is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser. 

Size : 49x90 cm

Theme: The liberation day of the concentration camp Dachau

Technique: Watercolor

Miriam Cojocaru was born in 1945 in Romania.

Shadows Past and Present

Photo is courtesy of Michal Ashkenasi

Copyright: Michal Ashkenasi 2 008

Right now this works is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser. 

Size: 110/80 cm.

Technique : Acrylic on canvas

Michal Ashkenasi wrote:

The painting was made as an outcry against the cynical use of the "Yellow Patch" by the West Bank settlers . As a Holocaust survivor I was deeply offended

Plane Trail

Photo by Hayim Shtayer May 2008. Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008.

The photographed plane is connected, so it seems, to the Independence Day flight above Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ashkelon and Sderot and the two rows of small black Stars of David create a smoke trail. This is the only instance known to me of Stars of David which are used in this connotation.

Israeli Police Logo

Star of David. Designed by the first Chief of the Israeli police, Yeheskel Sahar it creates the illusion of 3D. In the center there’s a Hebrew letter, which is the first letter of the Hebrew word for police. It doesn’t fit my idea for Star of David collection, since it is a separate emblem, nevertheless I like it a lot, since my father, of blessed memory, was a police officer, and I played with this emblem since I know myself.

Miracle Glasses

From: http://www.israelin3-d.com/?categoryId=23429

A viewer gazing through the glasses at night sees the [Star of David] symbol on the lenses reflected from any light source – streetlights, car headlights, or even the full moon.

Sixtieth Independence Year Neon Light

Photo of a large Star of David neon light sign alongside a large “60” neon light sign taken at Bayit Vagan Neighborhood, Jerusalem, May 2008. These signs were my source of inspiration when I offered designer Jennie Gottschalk to make a “GO 60” poster.

Flag in the wind in Jerusalem

Only the Star of David from the center of the flag is seen – all the other elements were gone with the wind, and wrapped around the white column.

Taken near Pat Junction Thursday, May 15, 2008

Week of the Book Poster in Jerusalem

Photo of a blue Star of David emerging from a book alongside the logo of the 60^th Independence committee, which has another (most popular) blue Star of David.

Taken at Pat Junction Thursday, May 15, 2008