This is a comic strip entitled “Hofni the Dreamer and his Adventures,” that was featured in the children’s newspaper Eden in 1925 just before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The cartoon depicts Hofni’s Rosh Hashanah. In the first illustration Hofni is sitting with his family at the Rosh Hashanah meal. Later, he falls asleep and dreams that his is surrounded by mounds of ice cream, chocolate, and sweets. He dreams of climbing on a tree of chocolate fruit and throwing down chocolate to the children below, eating ice cream flowing from taps, and eating a meal of sweet foods. He is woken abruptly from this dream, when his mother shakes him telling him that it is time for the Rosh Hashanah services. Hofni, who in all of these cartoon strips always dreams about life in Israel, is imagining Israel as a Land of Ice Cream and Chocolate in contrast to the biblical metaphor of Israel as a Land of Milk and Honey. 

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Eden –The newspaper Eden was published in New York between 1924 and 1926. The Hebrew-language newspaper included varied content and, for the first time, rich graphics. According to its editor, Daniel Parsky, Eden was the first newspaper to include crosswords in Hebrew. Eden was a Zionist newspaper, and many stories and reports, such as “The Adventures of Hofni the Dreamer,” described the life of the pioneers in Israel and the activities of the Zionist movement.