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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

The Menorah

Titus Arch
Scroll of Fire sculptured by the artist Nathan Rapoport

The Scroll of Fire monument, 1968, in the Jerusalem Mountains, was created by Nathan Rappaport. One scene is connected with the Titus Arch: a relief on the Arch shows the victory parade over Judea. Jewish prisoners carrying the Menorah of the Temple that were captured by the Romans. In this memorial, IDF soldiers and pioneers carry the Menorah in the parade of the return to Zion. The defeat became a revival - the same idea represented by the Menorah in the State emblem.
A palmette Verrier pear tree at the Met Cloisters NY that somewhat resembles the shape of the State emblem.

In January Yoram Shamir noticed this tree in the gardens of the Met Cloister museum in NY.

He communicate with the Museum and got the following interesting reply:

Dear Mr. Shamir,

Thank you for your email inquiry. Your image shows the younger of our espaliered pear trees, planted about twenty-five years ago. The trees are striking and unusual, prompting many visitors to ask about them. Espalier describes the method of training a fruit tree against a wall; the heat and light radiated from the wall help ripen the fruit. The candelabrum-like form of this tree is known as a palmette Verrier. The resemblance of the form to a menorah in this case is a coincidence. It is interesting, however, that some images of the great Temple Menorah juxtapose it with images of olive trees that provide the oil to fill its lamps. One example is the great 14^th century Hebrew Bible in the National Library, Lisbon. The Met was lucky enough to borrow that manuscript some years ago, and you might still find information about that loan on the Museum’s website.

I hope that this information about The Cloisters’ pear trees is helpful.

Sincerely,

Christina Alphonso

Senior Administrator
The Met Cloisters
Model of the Temple, including the menorah from the Arch of Titus

The model was built by Renee Mazor for a workshop with children in Beit Ariella library, Tel Aviv.

The Menorah was designed by the artist according to the Menorah on the Arch of Titus in Rome (and on the State emblem designed by the Shamir brothers) and not according to the description in the Bible.
An invitation to opening of the La Menora exhibition at the Vatican Museum and the Jewish Museum in Rome

An invitation to opening of the La Menora exhibition at the Vatican Museum and the Jewish Museum in Rome, showing the menorah on the Titus Arch in gold. The Shamir brothers designed the Menorah as the central element in the State emblem, based on the marble relief on the gate. The designers of the invitation added the gold to the relief on the basis of the verse in the Torah: "And thou shall make a candlestick of pure gold, of beaten work shall the candlestick be made" (Exodus 25,31). The exhibition will open on May 15, a symbolic date.
Who returned the Menorah to its rightful place?

An anecdote from the autobiography of Itamar Ben-Avi, the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. "The Cheeky Hebrew Man - Episodes in the Life of the First Hebrew Child" Yediot Aharonot-Hemed Books 2016.

In the chapter about his meetings with various leaders he describes a meeting with Mussolini:

At the end of the meeting Mussolini asked him: "Do you have any special requests from me?"

Itamar replied: "In order to erase forever the memory of ancient times' hostility between Rome and Judea I have one wish"

"and what is that wish?" asked Mussolini

"That your excellency would be kind enough to move the Titus Arch from Rome to Jerusalem" replied Itamar.

For a moment Mussolini was stunned, but then retorted with a spark in his eyes and a smile on his face:

"Well then, my friend Ben-Avi - come and take it!"

Well, after so many years the Shamir brothers did just that. They did not move the entire arch, but certainly returned the image of the Menorah to its rightful place.
Poster by Nachum Gutman for Keren Hayessod, 1932
An explanation (in Hebrew) from the book "Keren Hayessod is sowing - The Jewish people are reaping", edited by David Tartakover, Keren Hayessod 2010
Articles (in Hebrew) on the connection between the Menorah in Zechariah (Chapter II, 2-3) and the State emblem, January 2017

Articles (in Hebrew) on the connection between the Menorah in Zechariah (Chapter II, 2-3) and the State emblem, January 2017
Standing on the podium
Article by Yael Maali

Click to see the entire article (in Hebrew)