Israel will issue six new postage stamps Aug. 21 showing six stained glass windows by Marc Chagall which are in the chapel of the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, the Israel Philatelic Agency in America announced. Stamps showing the other six windows were issued March 26. All the stamps of the Chagall windows have IL 1.00 values. Israel will also issue on Aug. 21 its annual Festival set of postage stamps. The stamps, depicting the prophets Isaiah Jeremiah and Ezekiel, were designed by P. Greba and have values of IL 18, IL 0.65, and IL 1.10 respectively.
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