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PINS, BADGES and MEMORABILIA of ISRAELI and ZIONIST HISTORICAL EVENTS:
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Israel/Palestine: tallion commemorating 25th anniversary of Tel Aviv's founding, (1934); tin; no maker-mark; size (tallion only): 20.5mm x 23.25mm; weight: 2.3g.
Square sized uniface tallion depicting emblem of the city, with 4 lines of text in Hebrew: "25th Jubilee Tel Aviv" and the city's motto "I will build you and you shall be built" (excepted from a quotation from the prophet Yirmiyahu).
Tel Aviv was founded on the sands near the city of Yaffo and the Mediterranean, originally as a garden suburb to Yaffo, and called (in loose translation) "House Holdings" ("Akhuzat Bayit"); in 1910 it was renamed "Tel Aviv" ("Hill of Spring"). The emblem depicted on the tallion was an amended version (1927) of an official design created by Nahum Gutman (1925), after several other submissions were rejected - and the city's motto is credited to him as well (the emblem was modified again in the late 1930's to incorporate 7 Stars, and again in 1950 when Tel Aviv and Yaffo become a joint municipality).
The 25th anniversary (April 1934) coincided with a few noteworthy events: in January, the Mandatory government granted Tel Aviv the status of a city, in April, against the backdrop of the anniversary, the city hosted the 2nd Levant Exhibition (which attracted 600,000 visitors); the city also hosted the 2nd Maccabi Games (the "Maccabiah").
In that same year, the landmark Bauhaus-styled "Dizengoff Circle" was erected and Tel Aviv's first 'master plan' - the 'Geddes' plan - was adopted; the future Ichilov hospital was also envisaged that year, though it took until 1961(!) to complete it.
Specifically for the 25th anniversary celebration, the Hebrew poet Haim Nachman Bialik penned a poem ("Al Shileshim" - "On Three Parts"), and the city's Mayor, Meir Dizengoff, exhorted in the city's newspaper that Tel Aviv is not an "Eastern" city or some other city like "Whitechapel in London" in which Jews simply settle down - he pushed for the preservation of the growing city to remain a "Hebrew" city, with Hebrew language, spirit and culture, as a precondition to the founding of a "Hebrew homeland".
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Item Code: 0130918 Price: €135
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PINS, BADGES and EMBLEMS of OTHER ISRAELI and ZIONIST FAIRS & EVENTS:
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Israel: IDF Exhibition ("Ta'arukhat Tzahal") token, 1968; weight: 17.15g; size: 35mm.
Obverse depicts the official emblem of Israel's 20th Aniversary, with legend "IDF Exhibition 5728 - 1968"; on reverse the emblem of the IDF. The exhibition took place on 8 August 1968. In VF.
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Item Code: 0130669 Price: €12
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Moscow "World Youth Festival" Israeli delegation pin, 1957-58; no maker mark - probably Israeli manufacture; weight: 4.85g; size: 31.5mm x 26.5mm. In VF-EF, with a few cracks in the enamel paint.
Design incorporates immage of the festival's official emblem of Req Square tower in stylized 5-pointed star in black enamel and number "58" beside it in red enamel, with Israeli flag at lower left in blue and white enamel.
Though marked "58" this appears to be for the 1957 second "World Youth Festival" held in Moscow, to which Israel sent a delegation of around 250 members.
In her early years, with a Socialist-oriented government and a strong socialist-communist following in the land - particularly in the kibbutzim (agricultural communal settlements), Israel had lukewarm relations with the Soviet Union (the USSR was also the second country to recognize her when she declared her independence 10 years before); particularly with Premier Brezhnev's attempts to liberalize Soviet culture after the Stalinist period, Israeli participation in such an event is not surprising.
Accounts speak of 34,000 foreign guests, including 1600 British and 160 American guests and the Syrian national basketball team among others, and 60,000 Soviet delegates who attended the 2-week festival between July and August 1957, which included games, conferences and much political content.
For Soviet Jews this was their first encounter with their (free) Israeli counterparts, and the impression their contact made left its mark in later years: as early as 1958 Soviet authorities cracked down on local Jews who had been in contact with the Israelis. The previous festival was held in Warsaw in 1955 and the third one, in 1959, in Vienna and the fourth, in 1962, in Helsinki.
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Item Code: 0130664 Price: €65
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Moscow "World Youth Festival" participation pin, 1957-58; manufactured by Hoffstätter of Bonn; weight: 2.6g; size: 19mm x 50mm. Depicts official emblem of the Festival in dark blue-violet enamel paint; with soldiered curved pin reverse. In EF. Oddly, manufactured in West Germany for an event held in the eastern bloc (and for an Israeli delegation).
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Item Code: 0130665 Price: €35
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