Anat Aderet

Picture is courtesy of Anat Aderet who published this poem on her blog in the shape of a Magen David. Here is my translation:

I am a descendent of a Jewish family who lived in the Diaspora. Both my grandmothers were exterminated in the Holocaust. My daughter asks: "mother, have you been born in the destruction of the second Temple or in the Holocaust". “No”, I answer her. “ I was born in Israel and I am a Jewess, and I am an Israeli and I am a link in a chain, and I am the continuation, the next generation, and it is a mission, after 2000 years of Diaspora, and what really matters is that after all I am here, somehow".

The frame is my addition and it was made in Photoshop. I introduced the yellow color in order to hint at the Yellow Badge.

Reli Wasser- Dwelling Place For Peace

Picture is courtesy of Tzfat Artist Reli Wasser who loves the Magen David and integrates it in many of her works. Here we see the Star of David as a main object and in it we see a chamsa with a blessing of the house.

Flower Of Life

Picture is courtesy of Andrew Monkman who wrote to me:

I would appreciate your opinion on this symbol. It may be the root of your work! Thank you in advance.
From Andrew Monkman,Kirkwall,Orkney islands,Scotland.

I told him:

Dear Andrew Monkman,
Thanks for asking, but I know almost nothing about ancient (sacred) geometry so I don't know what do you expect me to tell you. I heard about the Flower Of Life, Merkaba Meditation, Drunvalo Melchizedek etc. but I have no tools to judge it. I'm interested in the origin of the Magen David and its various manifestations, but I didn't delve into the subject of flower of life and sacred geometry.

And then he wrote to me:
The Star of David originates from this symbol! If you contemplate the symbol - answers will appear.

We Shall Never Forget

Tzfat Artist Reli Wasser is connected to the Star of David and that’s why it appears so much in her works. I met her in the beginning of this month at the Magen David symposium in Yavne, where some of her Magen David works were exhibited at the entrance to the hall. This work is called “We Shall Never Forget”, and it deals with the Yellow Badge. It is published here a day after Yom haShoah Ve'Hagvura, Remembrance day for The Holocaust and Heroism.

Bless This Business

An elegant ceramic Bless-This-Business (Birkat Haessek, in Hebrew) pendant on a white Star of David within another Star of David decorated with colorful small glasses. 
The more I learn about the six- pointed star the more I get convinced that it is about protection. I think the translation of Magen David into Shield of David is only one possible translation. I prefer to translate it into David’s PROTECTOR, and David's protector is God. These are quite contrary interpretations since the shield points at the military gear while the protector points at the spiritual source of strength.

Also, we find many hexagrams on city walls, like the Ottoman walls that surround the old city in Jerusalem. Walls are physical protectors and those kings who embedded hexagrams in them, all along history, tried to answer the question who will protect the protectors?

Tel Aviv Towers

Magen Davids appear on the facade above the entrance to the Tel Aviv Towers, a complex of four high-end residential towers, each 34 stories high. The Tel Aviv Towers were built by Riskin Architects who probably designed these beautiful modernistic styled Stars of David.

Israeli Tourist Car

A Magen David above the Israeli Tourist Ministry logo on a car licensed to transport tourists. The brilliant logo is based on the verse from Numbers 13:23

And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; 

Since the logo is based on circles and triangles the Magen David addition fits in so well that those who do not recognize the original logo don't even notice it.