Architecture in Israel – 1990 Stamp

The return of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel, a country unpopulated for the most part, necessitated the planning and establishment of a new infrastructure of settlements, both urban and rural. This infrastructure would include residential housing, public buildings as well as agricultural and industrial structures. The Leopold Krakauer stamp depicts the dining hall of Kibbutz Tel Yosef in the Jezreel Volley. The different lie of the land, on a slope of a hill, forced Krakauer to design an innovate concrete frame. The Ze’ev Rechter stamp shows a house in Tel Aviv called ‘Engel House’ (1933). This was the first house to be built on pillars, whose purpose was ‘to create distance between the resident and the street’. This house become a model for many others that were built later. The souvenir sheet was issued on 12th December 1990. The souvenir sheet together with an information sheet are enclosed in a plastic protection sheet.