Israel Stamp Reviews

Hobby , identity and community are distinct but closely related concepts. The distinction is one of experience: a hobby is a thing we do, an identity is a thing we have, and a community is a thing of which we are a part. The relationship, meanwhile, is one of progression: engaging in a hobby can form part of a person's identity, and people with common identities tend to cling to one another and form communities. Not everyone who collects stamps will identify as a stamp collector, and not everyone who identifies as a stamp collector will join a philatelic community; however, the distance from point A to point B and from point B to point C is shorter now than at any time in the past. What has shortened the distance has been the rise of social media, because social media has increased the visibility of identities and made accessing communities virtually effortless. Case in point: Had it not been for social media -- specifically YouTube, and more specifically Graham Beck's Ex...

יום הזיכרון התש"ף: 100 שנה לארגון ההגנה Memorial Day 2020: Haganah Organization Centennial The "Haganah Organization Centennial / Memorial Day 2020" souvenir minisheet was issued by Israel Post on 21 April 2020. It consists of three stamps, each with a face value of ₪4.10, corresponding to the postage rate for an unregistered domestic 50-200g letter. Depicted on each stamp is a scene representing an area in which the Haganah was active: the "Security" stamp (right) shows four armed men in uniform on a training exercise in Israel's Jezreel Valley; the "Settlement" stamp (center) shows a group of men erecting a guard tower at Kibbutz Masada; and the "Immigration" stamp (left) shows a ship transporting Jews being moored off the coast of Nahariya. The minisheet was designed by David Ben-Hador , who has been a designer of Israeli stamps since 1980. The Haganah -- Haganah is Hebrew for "defense" -- was founded in June 1920...