DDT. For other articles, she worked as a bus ticket conductor, and as an immigrant Ulpan student etc. Her articles were always illustrated by cartoons. In 1958 she published her book In Short: Israel about a tourist’s experiences in Israel. Parallel to her journalistic work, Friedel also worked as a graphic designer. In the 1950s and 60’s she designed posters for the Philatelist Service and the Israeli Post Office. In 1960 she created the series Air Mail Landscape 2 - a series of 10 stamps of Israel Post (the third series of airmail stamps) about Israel’s cities and sites, thus being the second female stamp designer after Miriam Karoly). Amongst her other works are congratulatory Cards for Independence Day (published by Keren Ha’Yessod in 1958), a poster for the National Insurance Institute (in the 1950s), a collection album Countries and Nations in Pictures (in the early 1960s) and a poster for the Harp Contest (in the 1960s). Her design style was based on a minimalistic geometric line, suitable for those years. For years Friedel was the only female cartoonist in Israel and differently, from her colleagues she rarely dealt with political or military subjects. Her uniqueness was in daily life subjects, exposing the grotesque or absurd aspects of Israeli society. From the artistic point of view, Friedel’s work is characterized by a geometric line and relatively little use of color. From 1962 and 1992 Friedel lectured in the sketching department of the Bezalel Academy. For many years she volunteered in the Organization of IDF Invalids and in Beit Ha’Lohem. For this activity, she was awarded the President’s Volunteering Award of 1999. In 2004 she was awarded the Dosh Cartoon Award. Friedel never married. She died in Tel Aviv-Yafo in 2006, shortly before her 90th birthday and was buried at Kibbutz Einat. Awards and recognition Friedel's library was donated to the Beit Ariela Library in Tel Aviv. Her artistic legacy was donated in 2010 to the Israeli Cartoon and Comics Museum in Holon. Since 2012, the Museum has organized a yearly cartoon contest called “The Friedel Stern Humorist Cartoon Contest” in her memory. Gallery References 1917 births 2006 deaths Israeli cartoonists Israeli columnists Israeli illustrators Israeli women illustrators Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine Israeli stamp designers Women stamp designers Israeli women columnists