MONEY ISRAEL 10 LIROT 1968/5728 BANK OF ISRAEL STAMP CANCEL 2008 PICK 35 GEM UNC

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MONEY ISRAEL 10 LIROT  1968/5728 BANK OF ISRAEL COMMEMORATIVE ISRAEL 60 YEAR PICK #35 GEM UNC RARE
Israel, Bank of Israel "Commemorative"
Pick #35 1968 / 5728 (1968)
10 LIROT - Printer: JEZ (without imprint)
S/N 31526697
GEM UNC
In honor 50th anniv. of the Balfour Declaration, which established the right to a Jewish national home in Palestine.
Also has post seals: 28 4, 2008 In honor 60th anniversary.  "Israel - 60 Years Jerusalem"  and "Day of Issue"
( original stamp and postmark)
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Israel's 60th Independence Day celebrations will commence on Wednesday evening, May 7, when the state flag is raised to full mast at a national ceremony on Mount Herzl, at which twelve torches are lit.
With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jewish independence, lost two thousand years earlier, was restored.
Independence Day is a celebration of the renewal of the Jewish state in the Land of Israel, the birthplace of the Jewish people. In this land, the Jewish people began to develop its distinctive religion and culture some 4,000 years ago, and here it has preserved an unbroken physical presence, for centuries as a sovereign state, at other times under foreign domination. Throughout their long history, the yearning to return to the land has been the focus of Jewish life.