Star of David

An Israeli flag appears on a bag promoting the selling of dresses. I didn't see actually any doll walking in the street with this kind of gadget, but it seems that it won't be long till each Israeli patriot will have at least one of these bags (and then the Arabs will make bags with their own flags:)

Picture by Hayim Shtayer. Copyright Hayim Shtayer 2009  

Hayim Shtayer sent me this Nape Star of David Tattoo  picture along with another picture of a big sign with the words: Strong Home Front makes You Win the War. In Hebrew the same word (OREF) is used for Nape and for Home Front. The common denominator is pride, which seems to return to the heart of the Israelis as a result of the Gaza War consequences.

Picture shot by: Hayim Shtayer

Copyright:  Hayim Shtayer 2008

Magen David, Menorah and the Ten Commandments appear above Herzl’s statue in the yard next to the Caesarea Ralli Museum, which was founded by Harry Recanati in 1993.

Picture by Hayim Shtayer

Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

See more Herzl pictures by Hayim Shtayer

Recently, I got a few dozens well-selected images of Theodore Herzl from Graphic designer Hayim Shtayer who collects such images for many years, I thought it could be a magnetic center for many other Theodore Herzl enthusiasts, so I opened a group in Flickr dedicated to Theodore Herzl items -  see:

The above photo is an invitation (from Hayim Shtayer’s collection) to an Independence Party on 2003. Caption under the blue (what else?) Magen David is: Even Herzl didn’t believe.

Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

Hayim Shtayer went in November 1995 to Kikar Malchei Yisrael in Tel Aviv, the place where Yitzhak Rabin was murdered, and documented the spontaneous reactions of the Israeli public as they were written on the walls there. In the picture above we see a white Magen David below the caption: "you were born for peace".
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008 

See the whole collection on:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeevveez/sets/72157608679326292/

Magen David as part of Israeli Caricaturists (Funcom) Logo

Photographer: Hayim Shtayer

Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

Magen David made from pencils on the 1985 postcard of the Graphic Designers of Israel 50^th Anniversary. Design: Maurice Arbel. The item is from Hayim Shtayer’s collection. Courtesy of Hayim Shtayer

We see here a German cancel from 1965 carrying two hexagrams and a cross. Photo is courtesy of Hayim Shtayer. The cancel itself belongs to Hayim Shtayer's collection. 

Magen David appears on an old Happy New Year Card from Hayim Shtayer‘s collection. Along with the Magen David we see here a painting of the Jewish High Priest. Courtesy of Hayim Shtayer

Stamp with zodiac on its body and Stars of David on its tab is courtesy of Hayim Shtayer and I thank him for telling me about the connection between these symbols as it appears on this peculiar stamp. The same connection is hinted in The Testament of Solomon, which deals with King Solomon’s controlling demons with his ring (Solomon’s Seal), which latter became the name of the pentagram and of the hexagram.

From: http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/testamen.htm

F. C. Conybeare Published his translation to the pseudepigraphical work titled The Testament of Solomon (dated 1-3 C.E.) in the Jewish Quarterly Review, October 1898. The zodiac appears in a few places there, i.e.,

Chapter 10. And Solomon said to him: "Tell me, O demon, to what zodiacal sign thou art subject." And he answered: "To the Water-pourer

Chapter 73: Then the first one came forward, and said: "I am the first decans of the zodiacal circle, and I am called the ram, and with me are these two."

Hayim Shtayer took this Photo of an old wagon with white six-pointed Stars at the entrance to Kibbutz Ein Harod. I asked Anat from Beit Shturman what are these stars doing there, and she checked it out:

The wagon had been used for cultivation of fields in Kibbutz Ein Harod and it waspainted about 15 years ago by a volunteer from Australia named Richard, who married a girl who was born in that Kibbutz, and now they both live in Australia. May be Richard tried to paint the Australian flag stars which are five pointed, but eventually the stars came out six-pointed like the Israeli Star of David.

Zoom in by clicking the ALL SIZES icon above the picture in Flickr.

Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

The story (in Hebrew) and the (star of David based) logo (bottom left) of the Israeli Wheelchair Basketball Team that will participate in the Beijing Olympic games 2008 on an Aroma coffee house napkin.

Hayim Shtayer took the picture and the napkin is part of his collection.

Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

Many Stars of Davidengraved on a Mizrach (Hebrew: East) which is a decorated Jewish sign indicating the direction of Jerusalem.

Photographed by Michal Shtayer

Copyright: Michal Shtayer

Place: Joles Home For The Elderly, Haifa, Israel

Star of David Mess photo was taken by Hayim Shtayer at the exhibition of the graduate students of the department for graphic design in the Wizo Design Academy in Haifa where he lectures.

Designed this mess logo (expressing the messy situation in which the Israeli State finds itself on its 60^th birthday) Maya Sarfati, one of these graduate students,

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Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

Courtesy of: Maya Sarfati

Sweet star of David photo by Hayim Shtayer
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

The Hebrew words on the sticker says: "the heart boulevards of the nation". Even though I try to skip Israeli flag photos, since they show an independent symbol, I decided to include this one because it combines three symbols: the flag, the Star of David, and the heart. The complete message is: patriotism, love of one’s country.

Photo by Hayim Shtayer
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008