Israel Stamp Reviews

Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer | הרב עזריאל הילדסהיימר The "Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer" stamp was issued by Israel Post on 4 February 2020. Face valued at ₪11.80, the stamp features a grayscale photograph of Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899) against a background of books on shelves in a library. The tab below the stamp proper highlights the founding of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin as the rabbi's most notable achievement. Black, gray and the brownish color of old paper are the stamp's dominant colors. It was designed by Renat Abudraham-Dadon, who has been a stamp designer with Israel Post since 2013. As indicated in the stamp's release notes , Rabbi Hildesheimer was born in the town of Halberstadt, Germany in 1820. In 1846 he received a PhD in Jewish studies from the University of Halle-Wittenberg and shortly thereafter was appointed secretary of Halberstadt's Jewish community. In his role as secretary, Hildesheimer assisted the local rabbi and tau...

CMYK Color Printing | צבעי היסוד בדפוס The "CMYK Color Printing / Chlorurus" stamp was issued by Israel Post on 4 February 2020. Face valued at ₪16, the stamp features a multicolored chlorurus parrotfish swimming in a sea among corals and numerous smaller fish. As indicated in the stamp's release notes , "CMYK" is an acronym for cyan (blue), magenta (pink), yellow, and key (black) -- the four basic colors of printing. The upper area of the stamp depicts the CMYK color palette, and the tab below the stamp proper deconstructs a segment of the coral reef into its constituent colors. The stamp was designed by Tuvia Kurtz and Miri Nistor , both veteran designers with Israel Post: Kurtz has been designing Israeli stamps since 1998, and Nistor since 2001. It would be misleading to review the stamp shown above in isolation from the minisheet of which it is a part. Technically a 4×1 minisheet, since the top three rows consist of perforated labels and not actual ...