Israel's poet Laureate, Hayyim Nahman
Bialik, described the destruction
of the
second temple in his narrative
" The Fire scroll".
The Yom Kippur War was an attempt
to
destroy the Jewish State for the
third time.
The Hannukia is moulded in the
form of a
parchment scroll and has words
from Bialik's
text inscribed on it.
The "shamash" takes the form of
a sabbath
candle holder and on the right
hand side
there is an ink well and quill
with which
the "scroll" was written.
Material: copper.
Location: Kfar Menahem, Israel.