Israel Stamp Reviews

בול 75 שנה לשחרור מחנות הריכוז: התקומה Concentration Camps' Liberation, 75 Years: Resurrection The "Concentration Camps Liberation, 75 Years: Resurrection" stamp was issued by Israel Post on 21 April 2020. Face valued at ₪8.30, corresponding to the postage rate for an unregistered international 0-100g letter, "Resurrection" features the title page of a report published in September 1945 for the First Congress of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bergen-Belsen. The tab below the stamp shows a group of Jewish children being led out of Florence's Great Synagogue by a Jewish Brigade soldier and several Jewish Agency nurses in September 1944. Blue, gray and orange are the stamp's prominent colors. It was designed by Miri Nistor and Tuvia Kurtz , who have been stamp designers with Israel Post since 2001 and 1998, respectively. Bergen-Belsen in Germany ( Google Maps ) Bergen-Belsen originally served as a Wehrmacht-administered POW camp, f...

The idea that stamps are a window into a nation's culture and history presupposes that culture and history are matters of national consensus. In reality, culture and history are abstractions. Culture is an abstraction of values, and history is an abstraction of narratives. Values and narratives are never static; they exist in states of perpetual internal tension. Most of the time these tensions are minor, even healthy -- the stuff of dinner table discussions -- which is what allows societies to function and develop as stable systems. Controversy is what ensues when values or narratives clash. When controversy rises above a certain pitch or when there is too much of it for too long, it starts to undermine the society's stability. It signals that values or narratives have moved so far apart from each other that they can no longer peacefully coexist. Controversy offers observers the most penetrating insight into a nation's culture and history, because it exposes the fissu...

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 ...