Israel Stamp Reviews

בול 150 שנה למקווה ישראל עיצוב: צביקה רויטמן "Mikve Israel – 150 Years" stamp The " Mikve Israel – 150 Years " stamp was issued by Israel Post on 21 April 2020 to mark the sesquicentennial of the first agricultural school in the land of Israel. Face valued at ₪4.10, corresponding to the postage rate for an unregistered domestic 0-200g oversized letter, the stamp shows Mikve Israel 's historic synagogue with its iconic palm trees, foregrounded by a tractor beside which a young man and woman are seated on a bench with a laptop computer and a book. The tab below the stamp depicts the Mikve Israel emblem -- a farmer holding a seed basket in a plowed field, an ear of wheat on the right, and an olive branch on the left. Green, off-white, yellow, and blue are the stamp's prominent colors. It was designed by Zvika Roitman , who has been a stamp designer with Israel Post since 2003. בול כל ישראל חברים עיצוב: צביקה רויטמן 2010 "150 ans de l'Alliance...

2020 EUROPA Stamps Competition The EUROPA Stamps Competition is a competition held annually to determine the best design among fifty stamps bearing the "EUROPA" logo and corresponding to a prespecified theme. It is organized by PostEurop , an agency headquartered in Brussels with roots stretching back to the 1950s. Voting traditionally begins on May 9th, Europe Day , and lasts four months. The first EUROPA competition, which was won by a Maltese stamp, was held in 2002. Last year, a panel of judges chose a Slovenian stamp as the winner while online voters went with an Armenian one. The theme of 2020's competition is "Ancient Postal Routes." Predictably, almost all the stamps feature historic maps and/or historic mail couriers. On the one hand, the fact that Israel is not a member of PostEurop means this blog does not have a proverbial horse in the race and is not biased in favor of or against any of the participating stamps. On the other hand, the fact ...

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...

Nicole Mowbray, The Guardian Is the popularity of stamp collecting in decline or on the rise? This was the question explored in a recent article by Nicole Mowbray in The Guardian ( "Post modern: why millennials have fallen in love with stamp collecting," 11 April 2020). Mowbray's conclusion, based on interviews with five individuals between the ages of 29 and 37 active in the United Kingdom's philatelic scene, was that the popularity of stamp collecting is on the rise. Is her analysis an accurate reflection of reality or does closer scrutiny reveal it to be a product of wishful thinking? "Year of the Ox" stamp ( China Post , 2009) Among stamp collectors there are two attitudes regarding philately's future. To frame the debate in Wall Street terms, the bulls believe stamp collecting experienced a decline in popularity for an extended period but has bottomed out and is now in a definite uptrend; the bears , on the other hand, believe that eve...