This blog (by Zeev Barkan) is dedicated to the Star of David, its history, its various meanings and usages in different cultures. It includes thousands of pictures of Star of David, six-pointed stars, hexagrams, Solomon's Seals, Magen Davids and yellow badges,and served as a resource for three books and four art exhibitions.
Haifa designer Hayim Shtayer shot this photo of a JNF sticker with the slogan: “I live in Israel -Why Don’t You?” and the sticker is part of his collection. The design is based on the Israeli flag, which is a separate symbol that justifies a separate blog dedicated to it, but since the Star of David in not in its center, I made my own rules flexible.
Haifa designer Hayim Shtayer shot this photo of a blue Star of David with a red Soviet Union star on a “Let My People Go” sticker. The sticker is part of his collection. It was used during the successful campaign to let Soviet Jewry immigrate to Israel after Six Days War.
The graphic design is fascinating: the transition from suppression to freedom is expressed by adding one point to the five-pointed Soviet Union star and by changing its color from red into blue. The transition is represented by the red arrow that prolongs the Hebrew letter Lamed.
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2007
Haifa designer Hayim Shtayer shot this photo of a Star of David with the words Marry Christmas. I published already a few Stars of David ןn connection with Christmas, but they were all abroad. It is important that Israelis will understand that this emblem is important to other religions too.
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2007
Haifa designer Hayim Shtayer shot this photo of a black Star of David on a Kahane Movement sticker, and the sticker is part of his collection. The Hebrew words say: "Arab, don’t you dare to think about a Jewess". It is interesting to note that the bottom triangle is created from the wrist, and the right side of it must be completed by the viewer’s imagination. The successful design and the disgusting message remind me of the verse in proverbs 11:22: “like a gold ring in a pig's snout”.
Copyrights: Hayim Shtayer 2007.
Haifa designer Hayim Shtayer shot this photo of a colorful Star of David on a sticker of Good Will Ambassadors Organization, and the sticker is part of his collection. The Hebrew words say: "Don’t be a hooligan, represent us honorably abroad ". The word "hooligan" in Hebrew is similar to the word for "abroad" and the designer used this similarity to maximize the effect of his message. Interestingly the Star of David is made from six non-equilateral triangles and not from the known design of two equilateral triangles. These triangles also create a hexagonal frame in the center of the logo.
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2007.
Haifa designer Hayim Shtayer shot this photo of a sticker against abortions, and the sticker is part of his collection. We see an embryo in a womb, which has the shape of a Star of David.The Star of David is used frequently as a frame for “important things” like peace, Zion, Jerusalem. This specific design makes you think of every frame as a womb, or the other way round: of every womb as a frame.
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2007
Haifa designer Hayim Shtayer shot this photo of a Star of David on a, “I’m a Zionist” Armband. The shape of the Star is made from the Hebrew letters of the words “Ani Zioi” (I’m a Zionist). Using different Hebrew letters to build a Star of David is quite abundant, but, of course, foreigners might miss the point.
