The Bezalel School's olive-wood products were inexpensive and popular tourist souvenirs, but they were also highly symbolic items. These artifacts often featured holy sites such as the supposed burial site of King David's son Absalom in Jerusalem. The olive itself has special significance as one of the seven biblical species associated with the Land of Isbrel. Bezalel's objects thus provided a direct physical connection to the people, and land of the Bible. No other craft movement of the period carried such deeply rooted emotional and cultural power.