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Israel's First Stamps Have Soared Greatly in Value

a classic example of how
Israel Stomp Collectors Societe
dramatically the stamps of
VAN NUYS, Calif — The Israel can increase in value.
The Door Ivri, with tabs,
first postage stamps of Is-
rael were released on May had an original face value of
16. 1948, and are called approximately $8. By the
Doar Ivri, which .means end - of the 1950s these
"Hebrew Post." Doar Ivri is stamps were worth $100. By
1972, one New York
wholesaler was offering to
sell the very fine sets of
For
these tabs for $1,200. They-
are now worth $7,000.
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The Doar Ivri has a fas-
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cinating background. The
for Cohen
stamps depict various an-

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cient coins which were used
before the days of the Sec-
ond Temple in Jerusalem.
And three factors have
made these stamps quite
scarce.
First, Israelis tended to
tear the tab off the
stamps when using them
for mailing. Today, the
preferred method of'col-
lecting Israeli stamps is
with the tab portion at-
tached. The "tab" is a
paper appendage found
on a small portion of

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ROME — Fifty-four
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War Crime Trial
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PHILADELPHIA — The
trial of Serge Kowalchuk,
deputy commandant of the
Ukrainian National Police
from 1941-1944, began in
U.S. District Court here last
week.
Kowalchuk faces loss of
citizenship for allegedly
"torturing and murdering
innocent citizens during the
Nazi massacre of 5,000 Jews
in a Ukrainian village."

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