Hora dance

On April 17, 2024, Israel and Romania celebrated their 75 years of uninterrupted diplomatic relationship through a joint issue representing dancers. The Hora Dance is a type of circle dance originating in Romania and surrounding  communities and culturally adopted by Europeans minorities. The Israeli Hora Dance, born in Romania, played a foundational Role in modern Israeli Folk Dancing. The Dancers on the stamps are dressed in  clothes colored as same as the national flags. Images are just mirroring in the stamp from the other country defining this twin issue as [T3] and not [T1]. On the Romanian stamp appear the flags of the two countries and on tabs as well, while on the Israeli stamps the flags appear on the stamp tab only (first information about this new issue provided by Dov Lask, Israel).

Israel issued stamps in miniature sheets of 15 stamps with 5 of them bearing tabs. Romania issued stamps in panes of 32 (only 7,296 stamps, so 228 panes) and miniature sheets of 6 stamps with 2 tabs (only 4,260 stamps, i.e., 710 miniature sheets and a maximum of 1,420 stamps with tabs). Officially, Romania post created also 211 numbered mixed souvenir sheets with stamps from both countries, but of course more will be available as private production of mixed first day covers remains possible. However, each time Romania is recently involved in a joint issue, the number of combined products remains very limited.

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