Another cover from Israel, not much philatelic value here, but I just felt like showing it since the stamp on the upper right hand corner is quite curious. It's part of a 4v set issued on 17 Dec 06 to celebrate Philately Day, but what is the connection between fashion and philately? Sure, you can probably think one up, but it doesn't really exist, does it?
Anyhow, the stamps celebrate the evolution of fashion in Eretz Israel/Yisrael from 1882 to 2005. The stamp here is the last chronologically.
A factual tidbit here: The phrase Eretz Israel refers to the Land of Israel, which in modern times is the Jewish homeland to be established in the general area of Palestine. In Ottoman Turkish times, Eretz Yisrael and Eretz Hakodesh (the Holy Land) were used to designate the area surrounding Jerusalem and including areas from the Litani river in the north to modern Eilat. Under the British mandate, Eretz Yisrael came to designate the area of the Mandate.
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