ISRAEL

ISRAEL / יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ - إِسْرَائِيل

Israel Landscapes.
Coral Island (Pharaoh's Island).
Stamp issued on 23.04.1975.
Face value: 2.00 Israeli lira.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 31 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 
- Michel No. 526yI.
- Scott No. 473ii.
- StampWorld No. 535.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 509p.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 470a.

Coral Island (sometimes called Pharaoh's Island) is a rocky islet that now belongs to Egypt, about 250 m ( 820 ft) to the east to the coast of the Sinai Peninsula in the Gulf of Eilat (or Aqaba), at the northern end of the Red Sea, and 13 km (8.1 mi) southwest of modern Eilat (Israel). It is made of solid granite. Some scholars identify this island port with the biblical Ezion-Geber. A wall of casemates with towers surrounding the island at the height of the coast, including the port, has not yet been able to be dated, and the ruins of a castle probably correspond to an Ayyubid fortification of the 12th and 13th centuries.