Vintage EXHIBITION POSTER Jewish ISRAEL Judaica KKL JNF BLUE BOX Hebrew ZIONIST

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Vintage EXHIBITION POSTER Jewish ISRAEL Judaica KKL JNF BLUE BOX Hebrew ZIONIST:
$95.00

DESCRIPTION : Here for sale is a genuine authentic vintage 25 years old ZIONIST JUDAICA POSTER which was graphicaly designed by RAFI ( Raphie ) ETGAR , Issued by the Jewish - Eretz Israeli - Hebrew JNF ( Jewish National Fund ) - KKL ( Keren Kayemet Le\'Israel ) in1991in Eretz Israel . It was issued towards the opening of the Zionist exhibition \" The JNF BLUE BOX EXHIBITION - Jewish National Fund - 90th ANNEVERSARY 5662-5752 19001-1991\" with the purpose of commemoratingand celebrating the 90th ANNIVERSARY - BIRTHDAY of the KEREN KAYEMET LE\'ISRAEL- JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ( KKL - JNF ). The poster depictsa traditional very OLD and RARE KKL BLUE BOX. The poster is namedafter the EXHIBITIONwhich is written also in ENGLISH , FRENCH and SPANISH . Designed byRAFI ( Raphie) ETGAR, One of the leading GRAPHIC and POSTER DESIGNERS in ISRAEL . Printed on thick chromo. The poster SIZE is around 28\" x 20 \". Very good condition ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images )Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.AUTHENTICITY :The poster comes from a KKL- JNF old warehouse andis fullyguaranteed ORIGINAL from1991. It is NOT a reproduction or a recently made reprint or an immitation ,Itholds a life long GUARANTEE for itsAUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.

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SHIPPING : Shipp worldwide via registeredairmail is $18 . Will be sent within 3-5 days after payment in a protective rigid sealed tube. Kindly note that duration of Int\'l registered airmail is 14 National Fund (Hebrew: קרן קימת לישראל,Keren Kayemet LeYisrael) (abbreviated as JNF, and sometimes KKL) wasfounded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine (later BritishMandate for Palestine, and subsequently Israel and the Palestinian territories)for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a quasi-governmental, non-profitorganization.By 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel. Since itsinception, the JNF has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. It has alsobuilt 180 dams and reservoirs, developed 250,000 acres (1,000km2)of land and established more than 1,000 parks.In 2002, the JNF was awarded theIsrael Prize for lifetime achievement and special contribution to society andthe State of Israel.The Blue Box For dozens of years, the Blue Box served as afund raiser in every Diaspora home and every Jewish institution in Israel andabroad: A cherished, popular means to realize the Zionist vision ofestablishing a state for the Jewish people. Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) was establishedon December 29, 1901 (9 Tevet 5562) at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel. Toraise funds for it, Haim Kleinman, a bank clerk from Nadvorna, Galicia, soonplaced a box in his office and sent off a letter to Die Welt, the Zionistnewspaper in Vienna, notifying it accordingly:\"In keeping with the saying, \'bit and bitty fill the kitty\' andfollowing the Congress resolution on KKL\'s founding, I put together an \'ErezIsrael box\', stuck the words \'National Fund\' on it and placed it in a prominentspot in my office. The results, given the extent of the experiment so far, havebeen astonishing. I suggest that like-minded people, and particularly allZionist officials, collect contributions to KKL in this way.\" The Blue Box: More Than aFundraising Device The funds raised through the Blue Box (the\"pushke,\" as it was widely known) were an instrument to redeeming theland in Eretz Israel on which the Jewish home was to arise. But the Blue Boxwas more than just a fundraising device. From the beginning, it was animportant educational vehicle spreading the Zionist word and forging the bondbetween the Jewish People and their ancient homeland. The Blue Box has changedform many times over the years, and often wasn\'t even blue. It is a symbol. Asymbol of KKL-JNF and its efforts to develop the land of Israel, plant forests,create parks, prepare soil for agriculture and settlement, carve out new roadsand build water reservoirs – A symbol of connectedness with the land. For manypeople, KKL-JNF\'s Blue Box is inseparable from their childhood memories. BlueBoxes were placed in every classroom, into which every Friday small coins weredropped. For several decades the Blue Box raised funds for Environmental goals,though over time its status whittled away until it disappeared from the Israeliscene. The Blue Box was reinstated after the Second Lebanon War. Giant BlueBoxes designed by the finest Israeli artists were exhibited on Tel Aviv\'sRothschild Boulevard where the public was invited to contribute torehabilitating Israel\'s northern forests which had been destroyed in the war.Isrotel Hotels also took part in the effort with a large donation and awarded atree planting certificate to every guest in each of its hotels. The bluecharity collection boxes have been distributed by the JNF almost from itsbeginning. Once found in many Jewish homes, the boxes became one of the mostfamiliar symbols of Zionism. A children\'s song about the boxes, written by Dr.Yehoshua Frizman, Headmaster of the Real Gymnasium for Girls in Kovno, ran The box was inventedwhen a bank clerk named Haim Kleinman in Nadvorna, Galicia placed a blue boxlabeled \"Keren Le\'umit\" in his office, and suggested that similarboxes be distributed by the Fund. The first mass-produced boxes weredistributed in 1904. Kleinman visited Mandate Palestine in the 1930s andplanned to make aliyah, but perished in the Holocaust. Menahem Ussishkin wrotethat \"The coin the child contributes or collects for the redemption of theland is not important in itself; it is not the child that gives to the KerenKayemeth, but rather the Fund that gives to the child, a foothold and loftyideal for all the days of his life.\"The boxes could take a variety ofshapes and sizes. Some were paper made to fold flat like envelopes and able tocontain only a small number of coins, some early American boxes werecylindrical, some German boxes were made of tin stamped into the shape of boundbooks. Israel issued postage stamps bearing the image of the blue box in 1983,1991, and 1993 for the JNF\'s 90th anniversary.