Lot 35
Collection of Newspaper Issues covering the Arlosoroff Assassination
Twenty-two single leaves, supplement issues of the newspapers "Haaretz", "Davar", "Doar Hayom" and "Iton Meyuchad", dealing with the assassination of Arlosoroff and the following investigation, 1934.
The leaves record "real-time" updates as to the investigation and the trial. Arlosoroff, political director of the Jewish Agency, was assassinated on a Tel Aviv beach on June 16, 1933. The murder, which was never solved, led to arguments in the Yishuv, and involved serious accusations against the Revisionist movement. Five issues are double or appear in several copies. Average size: 32 cm. Condition varies, tears, creases and stains.
