Insect Stamp of Israel

Israel is Jewish State which assumes Jerusalem that is Judaism, the Christian Bible a capital. A Jewish kingdom was formed in the tenth century B.C. However, it is destroyed in the first century by the Rome armed forces, and a Jew will break up in many parts of the world. Mother country return movement led by the Jew who lost the mother country, and drifted to Europe (Zionism) began in end of the 19th century, and it entered in the 20th century, the U.K. promised national construction for Judea and Arabic, both sides in 1917. It declared the founding of a country of the State of Israel in 1948 and extended a winning by Middle East war (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 year) for the fourth afterward. By the third Middle East war of 1967 in particular, it occupied Gaza Strip, the West Bank where Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, more now Palestinian provisional autonomous government started. It conclude a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979. PLO and the reconciliation that there was for antagonism as for the thing of Prime Minister late Lavin were formed in 1993 and signed principle declaration to relate to self-government temporarily of Gaza.
A stamp of four kinds of butterflies was issued in 1965 by this Israel. A child and herbaceous plant was drawn on a tab.
A stamp of four kinds of insects was issued in 1994. An insect of a kind same as a design was drawn on a tab.

State of Israel
1965.12.15 Butterfly Stamp
Two-tailed Pasha
Charaxes jasius
(Nymphalidae)
Southern Swallowtail
Papilio alexanor
(Papilionidae)
Oleander Hawk Moth
Daphnis nerii
(Sphingidae)
Sooty Orange Tip
Zegris eupheme
(Pieridae)


1994.2.8 Insect Stamp
Tiger Beetle
Graphopterus sarrator
(Cicindelidae)
Green Flower Chafer
Potosia cuprera
(Scarabaeidae)

Seven-spotted Ladybird Beetle
Coccinella septempunctata
(Coccinelidae)
Tiger Longhorn Beetle
Chlorophorus varius
(Cerambycidae)


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