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Israel Today article for 75th Independence day on the use by Malka beers of Shamir posters on their labels. 21 April 2023
Towards Hanukkah 2022, Farkash Gallery in Jaffa are auctioning military posters; Five of them by the Shamir brothers. Prices range from 790 to more than 5000 dollars
David Sela presented on Channel 13 the mail poster " Post your festival greetings early" designed by the Shamir brothers in the early 1960s. He also used the poster as the header on his popular website "Nostalgia". September 2022
A collection of articles by Dr. Einat Wilf was published in the USA "Should everyone be Zionist". On the cover is a banknote by the Shamir brothers from 1958 and a portrait of Einat Wilf inspired by a Nahal soldier on the banknote.
In the Negev Holyland's 100th auction, the FDC designed by the Shamir brothers of the Negev stamp from 1950 is being offered. September 2022
At an auction at an event of the Israel Philatelic Federation five stamps designed by the Shamir brothers are offered for sale. August 2022 Update: At the sale on September 2, high prices were achieved
An article in Israel Today: "A lesson with respect" uses two JNF stamps on "Respect your teacher" designed by the Shamir brothers in 1953. July 2022
A poster exhibition from the Roni Duak collection was presented at Beit Hanna, Florentine, Tel Aviv. Inc works by the Shamir brothers, Otte Wallish, Franz Krauss, Yochanan Simon and Rudy Deutsch Dayan. May 2022
The editor of "Fri-Sat" of "Israel Today" chose a poster by the Shamir brothers to illustrate an article by Yair Nitzani on the deterioration of the status of the Hebrew language. Dec 2021
In the book "The Collection of the Century" on the Central Zionist Archive centenary the authors wrote about the Shamir brothers: "Their graphic work was integrated into the life of the country on the way and in the first decades of the country."
The Shamir poster "The Best for Pilots" opens Ofer Aderet's column in Haaretz in memory of the pilot Shabtai Gilboa, who modeled for the poster. "The designers, enlisted for the mission and Gilboa became famous overnight," Aderet writes. 11/2021
The pilot Shabtai Gilboa (87), who modeled for the poster "The Best for Pilots" 1962 by the Shamir brothers, passed away. Gilboa finished his service in the Air Force with the rank of colonel and moved to El Al as captain. Nov 2021
A Shamir brothers poster for the International Workers' Day 1952 appears in a traveling exhibition in schools about the status of women in the Land of Israel, November 2021
The "Good Words" exhibition by the Shenkar Center for Design Research will open at the Old City Museum in Jaffa on November 19. It will include five 1950s posters designed by the Shamir brothers.
" Post your holidays greetings early" - a poster, designed by the Shamir brothers for the Israel Post, appears in "Israel Today", half a page in the "70 Years After" section, edited by David Sela. Sep 2021
A 1938 poster by Shamir brothers for the Israeli maritime authority has recently been discovered.
The figures from the 1958 Shamir designed banknotes on the dining room wall of Kibbutz Ginosar
A souvenir album presented by the Shamir brothers to the Minister of Postal services, Mordechai Nurock, with stamps designed by them. Offered for sale by Kedem, July 2021
A new book edited by Yoram Shamir: "In Shamir brothers' Footsteps" - 47 stories with illustrations by Daria Moses. has been added to our website. July 2021
A Shamir brother poster on the occasion of the appearance of a new newspaper for new immigrants "Omer" [says] appears in David Sela's section in "Israel Today July 21

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Mystery solved

During the preparation of an article for a special issue of "Etmol" to mark the 100th anniversary of the Zionist archive, the editor sent me the edited article. One sentence surprised me: "Gabriel Shamir archived 32 posters in 1991". I remembered that I transferred my father's entire artistic estate to them in 1994 and also checked their Shamir Collection catalogue, which was published as "The private archive of the Shamir brothers artwork that was donated to the Zionist Archive by Yoram Shamir, the son of Gabriel Shamir in 1994".

In answering my query about the source of the information, the editor sent me a photo from the Zionist Archives purchase book.

Several years later, after lengthy negotiations between the Shenkar Graphic Institute and the Zionist Archives, I brought - with the help of Violet Gilboa from Harvard University - to a collaboration between the two institutions. Then it became clear to me that the Archives Authority has more Shamir posters than the onesr I submitted in 1994.
With the help of "Etmul"'s editor, the mystery was solved: In the last year of his life, Gabriel Shamir handed over to Yoram Mayorek, then director of the Zionist Archives, about a quarter of the posters he had.
Yoram Shamir, August 2019