Stamp production was secretive due to the difficult political and military conditions of the period. "Coins Doar Ivri 1948". [Israel] Stamps catalog. Israel Philatelic Federation. נבדק ב-2008-02-07.. See also: "Doar Ivri 1948". [IPF] Articles. Israel Philatelic Federation. נבדק ב-2008-02-07. and
"Doar Ivri (Jerusalem 73 miniature sheets)". [IPF] Articles. Israel Philatelic Federation. נבדק ב-2008-02-07., which states: "...evidence has been preserved of the circumstances surrounding the preparation and printing of Israel's first stamps in 1948 - the haste and secrecy connected with the preparation of the designs by the artist Otte Wallish; the color trials of the eight stamps produced on the Haaretz newspaper press in Tel Aviv; the collecting of a sufficient stock of paper obtained from all manner of unconventional sources, the setting-up of the printing press in the Kirya (government office center) and the conspiratorial beginnings of the printing of the stamps even before the termination of the British Mandate." Some 10 and 15 mil stamps were printed missing a line of the tab inscription.
