27 Apr Israeli Independence Day Posters
The Farkash Gallery is proud to present a rare collection of Independence Day posters
Each year, ever since the founding of the state, an official poster is issued in celebration of Israel’s independence. Some of these images, created by leading Israeli graphic artists, have risen to iconic status.
Often, these posters serve as didactic tools to illustrate an annual theme. In all cases, they present a moment in Israel’s national history: its concerns and achievements during the past year, as well as hopes and goals for the coming one.
The following selection of some of the most important and beautiful posters issued over the past 70 years
In 1949, Israel’s first year, the mood was somber, and the graphics done in Socialist Realist style by German-born award-winning Israeli painter, illustrator and set designer Yohanan Simon. The text was taken directly from the young state’s Proclamation of Independence: “This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.”
Ten years later, in 1958, Israeli archaeologists were embarking on what would be known as the second golden age of biblical archaeology, and the national passion for uncovering ancestral roots was reflected in that year’s Independence Day poster by Israeli sculptor, painter and graphic artist Miriam Karoly.
A new decade and a new generation of native-born Israeli “Sabras” was celebrated in this 1960s poster by wall-hanging artist, painter and graphic artist Kopel Gurwin.
Gurwin went on to design one of the most memorable of Independence Day posters, a wall hanging honoring 20 years of independence in 1968.
In the late 1960s through the 1970s, Israeli artists were influenced by the counterculture in music and the arts, ushering in a wave of fairly trippy Independence Day posters. These also served as educational outreach to young Diaspora Jews, more of whom were spending time in Israel, and in need of some colorful dorm-room wall décor.
The 1971 poster for Israel’s 23rd Independence Day, again by Gurwin, echoed this spirit by portraying the Sabra not as a hard-working, folk-dancing pioneer, but rather as a flower child.
The 1976 28th anniversary poster featured artwork by Siona Shimshi, an Israeli painter, sculptor, ceramist and textile designer.
The following year’s poster, “The 29th Anniversary of the Unification of Jerusalem, 1967-1977” was produced by Ora and Eliahu Schwartz.
Israel’s 30th Independence Day was marked with two posters: “Independence Day 5738” featured a drawing by a child from Korea, a participant in the “Children of the World Draw Jerusalem” exhibition.
The other, “Thirty Years of Israel’s Independence” features an iconic image by leading graphic artist David Tartakover. It was also no less than prophetic, coming out just prior to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s surprising arrival in Jerusalem and the beginning of the peace process with Egypt.
Ten years later, Israel’s 40th anniversary was marked with a totally Eighties rainbow-hued poster.
In 1996, with the advent of the dot.com era, and the emergence of what would be called the Start-up Nation, the Independence Day poster celebrated “Education & Industry” with bitmapped computer graphics by Shmuel Zafrani.
In 2009, the centenary of the first modern Jewish city, Tel Aviv, with an architectural history ranging from Bauhaus to Azrieli, was recognized in the 61st Independence Day poster by Ohad Elimelech and Avi Haltovsky.
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“Davar Hashavua” Rare Weekly Newspaper During The War of Independence 13.4.1948
Original price was: $250.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00. Buy Now -
“Saving The Surviving Remnant” Aid campaign Poster For Holocaust Survivors Designed by the Shamir Brothers 1945
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006th Israeli Independence Day Vintage Poster Israel 1954
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007th Israeli Independence Day Vintage Poster Israel 1955
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010th Israeli Independence Day Vintage poster Israel 1958
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011th Israeli Independence Day Vintage poster Israel1959
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018th Independence Day for the State of Israel Vintage Israeli Poster 1966
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019th Israeli Independence Day poster 1967 Vintage Poster
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022nd Israeli Independence Day Vintage Poster Israel 1970
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023rd Vintage Israeli Independence Day poster Iisrael 1971 Kopel Gorbin
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024th Vintage Israeli Independence Day poster Israel 1972.
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025th Israeli Independence Day poster Israel 1973.
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027th Vintage Israeli Independence Day poster Israel1975.
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028th Israeli Independence Day poster israel 1976.
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029th Independence Day Vintage Israeli Poster israel 1977
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030th Israeli Independence Day poster 1978 David Tartakover
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031st Israeli Independence Day Vintage Poster Israel 1979 (The Small version)
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045h Israeli Independence Day Vintage Israeli Poster 1993 “Rejoice in Jerusalem”
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046Th Vintage Israeli Independence Day poster israel 1994
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047Th Vintage Israeli Independence Day poster israel 1995
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049th Israeli Independence Day Vintage Israeli Poster 1997 The Year of Zionism
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051th Israeli Independence Day vintage poster israel 1999. Jubilee for the Knesset
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052th Israeli Independence Day Vintage Israeli Poster 2000. Year of “different but equal”
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053th Israeli Independence Day Vintage Israeli Poster 2001.
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054th Israeli Independence Day Poster 2002
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056th Israeli Independence Day vintage poster 2004. Israel salutes for achievement and popular sport
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43rd Israeli Independence Day vintage poster israel 1991. ALIYAH & KLITHA (the Big Version) The Year of Immigrant absorption
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Extremly rare poster The first IDF \ Independence Paride Tel Aviv 1949
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Israeli ״Elite״ Coffee Sign on Glass 1970s
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Israeli Coffee Sign on Glass 1950s
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Jerusalem Boulevard Tel Aviv Street sign Enamel on tin 1950s
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Mexico Jewish Community Street sign Enamel on tin 1950s
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Never-opened case of hanging Israeli Independence Day flags from 1968, bearing IDF cartoons and motifs.
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Vintage Tin & Cardboard Signs, Advertising Posters, Vintage Israeli Memorabilia, Vintage Israeliana Items
Original Israeli old Sign Advertisement For ARTIK 1960s
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Rare Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl Tapestry, woven by the Alliance School, Jerusalem 1920
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Tribes of Israel Street sign Enamel on tin (SHIVTEI ISRAEL) 1950s
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Tu BiShvat Jewish holiday poster issued by the JNF (KKL) in Israel, 1955
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