Israel 2012 The Renaissance of Jewish Seamanship
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 17th April 2012
- three values
- Designed by: Ronen Goldberg and Tuvia Kurtz
- Printing: Joh. Enschedé Stamps, Netherlands, in separate sheets of 12 + 4 tabs
- Print process: lithography
- Stamp format height 50mm (including tab) x width 39½mm
- Perforations: 12.9 x 13.3
3sh ~ view of old Jaffa, and Hehalutz (The Pioneer), Jaffa, the first Jewish owned ship operating from Palestine
Tab: the Gozal (Fledgling) cement ship, and portrait of captain Zeev Hayam
3sh ~ portrait of Jeremiah Halpern (sailor and marine academy instructor), and Sarah A, sail training vessel of the nautical school in Civitavecchia, Italy, from 1934, which plied to Haifa
Tab: emblems of School, and rowing boat
3sh ~ portrait of Captain Erich Hirschfeld (German Jewish sailor) and the Har Zion, ship of the Palestine Maritime Lloyd company (from 1936) which carried emigrants to Palestine
Tab: portrait of engineer Emanuel Tuvim, and the liner Tel-Aviv (1934-1936)