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Postcard: During an incoming missile alert in Tel Aviv Jaffa, Hapoalim Bank II
[Posted: 2026-03-03 19-31 UTC±0] 

Horizontal painting in watercolour with ink lines, a scene at a parking turned shelter. On the left stands a Filipino woman, in the middle near the pillar sits a Chinese man. Two Black men, likely Eritreans, talk to each other on the right. In the back are more diverse people standing and sitting. The postcard is signed "During an Iranian missile attack, at a shelter; Tel Aviv Jaffa; Michael Vokabre 2025 5785"

Composite scan of the whole back of the postcard, the painting described before is on the bottom. On the top right, above the address space superimposed is part of the front of the postcard — a painting "Apotheosis of war" by Vasily Vereschagin with a pile of skulls in the steppe. On the top left are two stamps. Above is a stamp priced 4.20 ILS from the series "Art from the Holocaust" depicting an artwork Yehuda Bacon "To The Man Who Restored My Belief In Humanity" painted in Prague in 1945 in gouache, charcoal and pencil on paper. The painting depicts a man dragging another from a camp in a ray of light. On the bottom is a 8.50 ILS stamp from the series "International Mail From Eretz Israel" signed "Airmail" depicting a tri-engined biplane above Kinneret aka Lake Tiberias placed on top of a reprint of an old postcard with the lake Kinneret.

During an incoming missile alert in Tel Aviv Jaffa, Hapoalim Bank II (Twelve Day War)
On the left is a Filipino stranger, in the middle is a Chinese stranger, on the right are two likely Eritrean strangers.

Painting in ink and watercolour from a shelter at Hapoalim bank in Tel Aviv Jaffa during the “twelve day war”, painted on a postcard from Tretyakov Gallery of Moscow with a reprint of “Apotheosis of war” painting by Vasily Vereschagin.

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