Israel. Soviet Bloc 'postkrieg' against Israel: 5-05-1960 airmail stationary cover from TEL AVIV to BUCHAREST, franked 0.25L at FA-10 postage period rate to Europe using 1960 World Refugee Year (Ba191) & tied by machine cancel - this frank unaccepted by Romanian postal authority & cover stamped "Return | Stamped with | un-allowable postage stamps" using French-language boxed handstamp & returned to sender undelivered. Around this time the Bloc took a stance against certain stamp-subjects including this, here not actually unique to Israel as 20+ other countries also affected by Bloc's 'boycott' of this subject.

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Israel. Soviet Bloc 'postkrieg' against Israel: JUNE 1986 airmail cover from ISRAEL to LEIPZIG East Germany, franked 1.60NIS whose cancellations are light & faded; cover inspected by East German Censor which applied "return!" label in French & German on front tied by censor 54 "the items are not in conformity with item number.... of "the list of forbidden objects" - here postage stamps & 1st day covers for a collector in the GDR, which were returned unharmed; address crossed out & cover returned undelivered. Manuscript date on label "10.6.86" conforms with others which also have dates. Between 1981-86 East German rejected mail within which was enclosed philatelic material of Jewish subjects it considered "objectionable".

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