Jerusalem Views On Stamps

Old Jerusalem wall gates:




In years 1971-2, Israel issued a set of 8 stamps shows the eight gates of the old city of Jerusalem. The stamps were issued also as small format in two SS's:

The Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem was originally built by the fifth Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik (685–705) or his successor al-Walid I (705–715) (or both) as a congregational mosque on the same axis as the Dome of the Rock, a commemorative Islamic monument. Muslims regard the site as the third holiest in Islam, after Mecca and Medina.

On 21 August 1969, a fire was started by a visitor from Australia named Denis Michael Rohan,[89] an evangelical Christian who hoped that by burning down al-Aqsa Mosque he would hasten the Second Coming of Jesus. The fire at Al-Aqsa was the cause of great anger in the Muslim world, and demonstrations and riots occurred. Muslims blamed Israel for this event.

Many stamps were issued to commemorate the mosque burning. Here are from Egypt, Pakistan and one semi-postal for Yemen issued to collect money for the mosque restoration:

Christian holy places in Jerusalem, issued by Kingdom of Yemen in 1968:

Two more stamps in the set show Christian holy places in Bethlehem, near Jerusalem:

The 3000th anniversary of Jerusalem, city of David, issued by Israel on September 4, 1995:

King David playing harp, mosaic, floor of the 6th century synagogue in Gaza:

Jerusalem, 19th century map:

Aerial view of the governmental center of Jerusalem:

SS with many designs on the margins related to Jerusalem:

Views of Jerusalem on stamps of Israel:

Ottoman clock tower in old city of Jerusalem, issued in the set of Ottoman clock towers in Israel on May 3, 2004:
The tower was built in 1907 to mark the 25th anniversary reign of Sultan Abd Elhamid II as one of 100 towers built throughout the Ottoman empire. It was removed in 1922 by the new British rulers.

Armon Hanatsiv (Commissioner Palace) promenade, issued on July 14, 2008;

Jerusalem in the time of King Herods (72-4 BCE), issued on February 7, 2011:

Generali building in Jaffa road, the main road of Jerusalem, issued on November 13, 2016:
The Generali Building served as the Jerusalem branch of the Assicurazioni Generali Italian insurance company from 1935 to 1946. The building's neoclassical and modern architecture, and large, rooftop sculpture of a Lion of Saint Mark have made it a prominent landmark in downtown Jerusalem.

The 50th anniversary of Jerusalem reunification, issued on April 4, 2017. the left stamp shows the Hebrew University in Mount Scopus, the right stamp shows an old (colorized) photo of Jews praying in the Western Wall, taken around 1900. In the margin several places like the Knesset, David tower, the ammunition hill, the string bridge and the new tram.

Today, Israel celebrate the "Jerusalem Unification Day" marks the unification of the west part, controlled by Israel, with the east part, controlled by Jordan, in Six Days war in 1967.

A single stamp commemorate the 40th anniversary of the unification was issued on May 16, 2007:

Similar stamps with same design was issued inside SS about "Jerusalem of Gold" on May 14, 2008. The story behind the SS design, from Israel Philatelic Service web site:




The crown and the stamp designs are real 22 Karat gold embossed, hence, the stamp is differ from the one above. The SS issued also imperforated in low copy number, hence is very rare and expensive:

The 25th anniversary of the Hebrew University, issued on May 9, 1950. Stamp shows the first building on Mt. Scopus, later the faculty of laws:

The 50th anniversary of the Hebrew University, issued on January 14, 1975. Stamp shows the three campuses of Jerusalem. On the tab, the University logo consists from the Hebrew acronyms HU:

The University synagogue, Givat Ram, issued on March 4, 1975:

Mt. Scopus campus, issued on April 4, 2017 in SS I posted above:

The Ardon windows, by Mordecai Ardon (1896 - 1992), the Jewish national and university library, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, issued on April 17, 1990:

Views of old and modern Jerusalem with Biblical phrases about the city, issued by Israel on August 21, 1968. The background color of the stamps is gold which makes them very attractive and colorful designs, but my scanner turned the color to muted darks.

Christ before Pilate in Jerusalem, by Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528), engraved by Robert Cami and issued by Monaco on January 18, 1972 to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the birth of Dürer:

This is one woodcut out of a series of 36 woodcuts called "The Small Passion" by Albrecht Dürer, produced in 1511 as a new set of works on Biblical themes and the life and Passion of Christ.

To commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the burning of Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem in 1969 (see post in the top of this page), Yemen Arab Republic issued on January 1, 1971 a set of two identical stamps. Problem is that the stamps show the Dome of the Rock, a mosque far 500 meters from Al Aqsa and was not affected by the burning:

Today, the Jewish people marks the Tisha B'Av (the 9th of month Av), annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem. The destruction of the Temple by the Romans and the suppression of the rebellion of the Jews in the Kingdom of Judea ended centuries of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel.

This stamp, issued by Israel on May 27, 2018 shows stone relief from Arch of Titus in Rome built after the defeat of Judea and the fall of Jerusalem. It depicting a procession of Roman legionnaires holding tools used in the Jewish temple including the Menorah, a seven-branched candelabrum:

Issued in SS shows Menorah from different periods:

The UN partition plan of the territory under the British Mandate on Palestine to Jewish state and Arab state was approved by UN members on November 29, 1947. The Jewish National Fund (KKL) issued labels to celebrate the decision. They show the partition map.

Since the Arabs rejected the proposed plan, war started between the two communities started in late 1947. From May 15, 1948, when State of Israel was officially declared, Arab country armies joined the war and attacked Israel.

During the war, from December 1947, Jerusalem was under a siege by the Arabs and Jews entered the city in convoys in one way using armored vehicles.

Several weeks before the end of the British Mandate, the British closed all postal services in Jerusalem. The Jewish Leaders decided to use the above KKL labels as postage stamps. The labels were overprinted with the word "Post" and value was added using the British mandate currency Mil. Three different values were printed, each for different postal services.

Three different printings were done and issued, differ mainly in their font, known as Jerusalem Local I, II and III. Here is a complete set of the second printing I just received as a gift from a friend collects the theme of Israeli Arab conflict on stamps. He is running a philatelic blog and you can read more about these overprinted stamps in his blog:
https://stampandstories.blogspot.co...ege.html?m=1

Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock, (with Jerusalem Citadel cancel).

Saudi Arabia stamp from 1983 showing Al Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem:



Picture postcard with similar view: