The Sixth Independence Day of the State of Israel – Official Poster – 1954
Official poster published for the sixth Independence Day of the State of Israel. Litho-offset “Kaufman and Co.”, the Governmental Printer, Jerusalem, 1954. Design: Gerd Rothschild and Zev Lipman (signed in the plate: “Roli”).
An illustration of the remnants of an ancient stone structure with various Jewish symbols (seven-branched Menorah, a Shofar, a Lulav), to which six new bricks were added. Among the bricks, a young olive branch is growing, with six leaves.

6th Israeli Independence Day poster 1954. Each year since the state was establish, an official poster is published by the Israeli ministry of Education commemorating Israel’s existence.

A design contest is held between the local most professional and known artists. The poster mostly contains a symbolic motive relate to the state of Israel.

The Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish settlement. By 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel. Since its inception, the JNF says it has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. It has also built 180 dams and reservoirs, developed 250,000 acres of land and established more than 1,000 parks.

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