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FEPA NEWS 45 9 News from FEPA The FEPA Awards for 2023 Giancarlo Morolli writes: The FEPA Board wishes to express its profound gratitude to everyone who has contributed to the recognition of exceptional achievements in the world of European philately by nominating individuals and societies for the FEPA Medals and Certificates of Appreciation for 2023. The Board has made the following awards: THE FEPA MEDAL FOR EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE TOORGANISED PHILATELY, 2023 ELI WEBER (ISRAEL) Eli Weber has served as President of the Israeli Philatelic Federation for the last 30 years. Under his leadership it has reached exceptional heights of achievement, including hosting three International stamp exhibitions and a European exhibition. Since 1984 he has served the international philatelic community as a jury member As a group leader during this remarkable 40-year period he has trained many fellow jury members, a large proportion of whom completed their apprenticeship under his guidance. He served as President of the jury at no less than six international exhibitions from Tel Aviv 1998 to the recent EFIRO 2024. He was also President of the jury at the “Jerusalem 3000” European stamp exhibition in 1995. It speaks highly for the regard in which he is held that five different European federations considered him to be the most suitable person to lead their jury. THE FEPA MEDAL FOR EXCEPTIONAL PHILATELIC STUDY AND RESEARCH, 2023 COLIN TABEART (UK) The medal is awarded for his work on ‘British Long Distance Mail Packets Volume 2 - The Harwich Packets 1816-1834, Rates Routes and Ships Out and Home’. Colin Tabeart has studied maritime postal history for many years and published a series of books to guide collectors seeking to understand how letters were carried by sea, especially between Britain and its overseas empire. This work, based on original research, breaks new ground and will be an invaluable reference point for collectors who want to study mail services between the UK and Northern Europe during the 19th Century. A Certificate as Runner-Up has been awarded to Stavros Andreadis (Greece) for: ‘Large Hermes Heads - Printing and Shades’. Certificates of Appreciation have also been awarded to: – Fabio Bonacina & Beniamino Bordoni (Italy) for ‘Creatività per un francobollo’. – Semaan Bassil (Lebanon) for ‘Mail in the Levant. Beirut: A Case Study in the early age of steamship and globalisation 1835-1914’. – Eugenio de Quesada (Spain) for ‘El Correo sin Correos en España, siglos XV a XVIII’. Reviews of all these excellent works are at Pages 62-63.