Hebrew KKL - JNF Mint 30 STAMP SHEET Settement GALILEE Israel JEWISH Judaica

Description

DESCRIPTION
: Here for sale is a QUITE RARE complete & full stamp SHEET which was issued by the KKL - JNF ( Keren Kayemet Le'Israel - Jewish National Fund ) in the 1970's ,  When the JEWISH ISRAELI KKL - JNF was collecting funds for the HEBREW MITZPIM Settlements in GALILEE Eretz Israel .  THIRTY Mitzpim were planned to be settled on the JEWISH LANDS of KKL - JNF in GALILEE , And this commemorative STAMP SHEET consists of THIRTY STAMPS - A STAMP for each of these MITZPIM
.  Hebrew texts. The JUDAICA STAMPS are in MINT CONDITION , Still with glue on verso. SHEET size is 4.5" x 7 " . STAMPS size is around 1" x  0.8" . Excellent  condition . Unused. Gum on verso still pre
sent.
Slightly waved
( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ) .
Will be sent  in a  protective rigid sealed packaging.
AUTHENTICITY
: This is an ORIGINAL vintage ca 1970's  STAMP SHEET
, NOT a reproduction or a reprint  , It holds a life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.
PAYMENTS
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Payment method accepted : Paypal
& All credit cards
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SHIPPMENT
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Shipp worldwide via registered airmail is $ 19 .Will be sent  in a  protective rigid sealed packaging.
Will be sent  around 5 days after payment .
Galilee Mitzpim They also parallel another development in the settlement field in a very different, less controversial, area within Israel: this is the Galilee, where Jewish population was sparse and where new initiatives to enhance it were unfolded in the late 1970s. The Galilee, despite in many ways being one of the central areas of hityashvut since the early years of the century, had been in a somewhat anomalous position in the early decades of statehood. There was a large Arab population that had stayed in place in 1948 and had ultimately been included in the post-war Jewish State. In large areas of the north, where Jewish settlement was fairly scarce, there was a substantial Arab minority. Occasional discomfort had been expressed over the situation through the years; Menachem Begin's first government decided that the time had come to act.  A plan was developed for a series of settlements, called Mitzpim (look-outs), to be placed on the higher topographical points of the areas defined as priorities. Some of these settlements would be kibbutzim, others would be moshavim, but the majority would be once again, non-collective dormitory communities from which the population would be expected to commute to their chosen place of work. One of the interesting features of the mitzpe communities was that some of them had clear ideologies that were not connected to the traditional Zionist ideologies, as defined previous waves of settlement and continued to define the settlements in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza strip. These were ideologies of spiritual improvement: one community was defined by a philosophy of anthroposophy, associated with the Austrian thinker Rudolf Steiner; another was dedicated to the idea of meditation. These ideas were representative of changes occuring at a deeper level in the society at large. Increasingly, there was a turning away from the large national ideas, towards a search for more personal satisfaction, for more inner peace. The sheer physical beauty of the Galilean hilltops were likely to draw at least some of these seekers, and so a new type of settlement was born.
KKL-JNF stamps were a means of explaining its goals and raising funds for land redemption. Over the years, the Fund issued some 500 different stamps. Some of these were issued several times, at various opportunities, for various occasions and in different countries. All in all, some five thousand KKL-JNF stamps have been produced until the year 2000, featuring distinguished figures, different landscapes in various regions of the Land of Israel, historical sites and important Fund projects. The most prominent design elemnts on the stamps were the Star of David, a tree, a rural house, a hill, and fields. The most frequentlky depicted city on the stamps was Tel Aviv, the first Hebrew city.KKL-JNF stamps are among the oldest and most colorful chronicles of early Zionist history. The first stamp, the Zion Stamp, was issued in Vienna in 1902. Designed by artist Ephraim Lilien, it depicted a blue Star of David on a white background. At the heart of the Star of David, was the word "Zion". The stamp was distributed in seventeen countries, its face value being equivalent to the smallest currency unit in each. This, is order to lend body to the popular nature of the Fund and its saying that "a penny and a penny make a full pot."       ebay631