Gallery Farkas that in Old Jaffa, is the world's largest collection of Israeli historical posters. The basis of the local collection – military, political, advertising posters created by talented artists both before and after the creation of the state of Israel.

The Farkas family founded the collection in 1948, when Israel appeared on the world map. By this time the Jewish poster has come a long way. One of the oldest exhibits in the gallery – poster 1925 work of the founder of the Israeli design Zeev Raban, advertising Jaffa oranges (Jaffa has always been famous for its orange groves). Poster 1939 encourages Jews to join the British army. On another poster, a woman and her son escorted his father-a soldier, the label asks to remember "emergency tax" in aid of soldiers ' families.

During the Second world Jews fought on all fronts. On the poster, published in the U.S. in the forties, the slogan is "Jewish soldiers in need of a Jewish army! ". Close – printed in 1945, immediately after the collapse of Nazi Germany, black-white sheet, urging people to evacuate survivors from the Holocaust of the Jews in Palestine (Britain was strongly opposed to such immigration).

A unique exhibit is a poster of the Declaration of independence of Israel, printed at the time, only fifty copies have survived only three of them). For all the decades of Israel's existence an important part of his daily life were posters calling for support of the IDF, the defense Army of the country. Here is a rare poster of the fifties, calling in the ranks of Israeli troops, is the time when Ariel Sharon led the Marines to victory in the Sinai campaign of 1956.

No less attention from Israeli poster artists enjoyed a peaceful life. Many worksheets dedicated to children: here is the poster of the fifties with playing outdoors children, the inscription in Hebrew reads: "Summer". To the same period belongs a colorful poster with a picture of a family celebrating the feast of tabernacles Sukkot, or the feast gathering.

Exhibited here, of course, and the most utilitarian advertising: an ad from the wall of the soldiers ' canteen with a request to use a bottle opener, the wordstrip "Be healthy – drink malt beer! "government appeal 1952 to eat fish Daily, fresh from the sea! ".

The gallery collects not only the posters. On the stands exhibited old Newspapers, original letters, one of the founders of Zionism of ze'ev Jabotinsky, rare books and postcards. There are very interesting photos: wounded in the head Ariel Sharon welcomed the soldiers, victory in the Yom Kippur War; Leonard Cohen stands in front of Israeli soldiers had broken through to the Suez canal; General Moshe Dayan, shakes hands with Egyptian prisoners.