In 1943, Leon Blum was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp when the Leon Blum Colony (Kfar Blum in Hebrew) was dedicated.  This poster stamp raised funds, ten cents per stamp, for the establishment of this town which was built on land acquired by the Jewish National  Fund in the upper Galilee, about six kilometres southeast of Kiryat Shmona. 

The Kfar Blum area was the subject of many Hezbollah missile attacks in March and April.

Blum (1872-1950) was the first Jewish and Socialist prime minister of France, serving three terms (twice in the 1930s and the third in 1946 after he returned from Nazi concentration camps).  He first became politically active in the defence of Alfred Dreyfus who was wrongfully charged and then convicted of spying for Germany.  It was the Dreyfus trial that........

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