PFLP Palestine stamp sheet (5x5 including stamp of PFLP emblem) depicting water-color portraits of 24 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members involved in various attacks, with their names & dates of event + place; with English & Arabic legend; MNH & OG + staple holes in left gutter - gum disturbances near staple holes, possible from being stacked between other sheets. Of interest, where necessary the names "JERUSALEM" and "TEL AVIV" are used in English (i.e. not Al Quds or other such); possibly of European production.

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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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Soviet Union. Soviet Bloc 'postkrieg' against Israel: 18-01-1981 airmail stationary cover from TEL AVIV (probably couriered as return address new immigrants absorption center YAVNE) to LVOV (USSR, interestingly no addressee name) franked 2.80IS per postage period rate & tied by 'LIBI Fund' machine slogan cancel; backstamped -2-02-81 MOSCOW transit where refused further service: address crossed out + cover stamped "return" & manuscript arrow pointing to slogan cachet; on return Israeli Post Office applied instructional marking handstamp "Regretfully this postal object was returned from the USSR because of a postmark which has since been removed from service". The USSR objected to the "Defense Fund for Israel" display and refused to give the letter further postal service. Opened gently at back, vertical fold; part of the slogan cachet's text has been retraced by pen.

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