Photo Album and accompanying documents that document the members of the Maccabi Sports Organization in Jaffa and Tel Aviv at the beginning of the 20th century , 1910s to 1930s. Among the items: * Group photographs and photographs of the heads of Committee of the Chief Groups; Photographs of the Maccabi motorcycle group that in 1931 traveled from Tel Aviv to London. * photo of Maccabi members in the courtyard of the Gymnasia HaIvrit in Jaffa, 1914 (Avraham Soskin). * Six large photographs by Avraham Soskin signed with an impression and stamp of the photographer (on the reverse side), some described and dated in pencil (on the reverse side) + a Real Photo postcard, “Maccabi Jaffa” Sports Group, 1913 stamped “Photo A. Soskin, Jaffa Eretz Israel. * Three Real Photo postcards, “First Maccabi Congress in Jerusalem 1920” published by Y. Rachaman, Jaffa. * Real Photo postcard and two photographs of the second Maccabia Tel Aviv 1935 + Real Photo postcard in the form of photomontage – 25th Jubilee Congress of Maccabi Union in Eretz Israel [Second Maccabia], 1935. * Design for book cover of “Maccabi" by David Rimon (Tel Aviv, 1944). Issue of the Maccabi newspaper “Feriadishe Zeitung fun Mercaz Maccabi in Litta", Kovno, July 1929. * "HaMaccabi” Booklet for gymnastics and sport in Eretz Israel (technical questions and organization), Booklet 1, 1923 + Booklet 4, 5, 6 (one booklet), 1924. * Drafts for articles on Maccabi in Turkey and on Maccabi in the world by David Rimon and other items. Total of more than 30 items. Various sizes Good general condition.

Views of Tel-Aviv album by photographer Avraham Soskin. [A.G. Rotophot printing, Belin, 1926]. Hebrew, English and German.
The album contains 70 printed photographs of Tel-Aviv, from the distribution of plots in 1909 until 1926. The album also includes two maps and a drawing of the Tel-Aviv emblem. Designed by Nachum Gutman and his father, Simcha ben-Zion. On the third page appear an ink stamp of the Tel-Aviv municipality and a signed dedication in English by Israel Rokach, mayor of Tel-Aviv in the years 1936-1952. [6] pp, [75] photo plates. Good condition. Damaged binding. Several stains and tears.

154 historic photographs taken in Eretz Israel during WW I, through the years 1914-1918, until early 1920s. New prints produced by IDF archives [1960s/70s].
Ottoman senior military figures as well as Ottoman soldiers are portrayed in most of the photographs, during battles against the British army; also documented are the entrance of the British Army into Jerusalem and the surrender of the Ottoman army; Gaza and Beer Sheba fronts; Ottoman army camps, field bakeries and tents; British POW, and more. All photographs are annotated in pencil on the reverse. 13X17.5 cm. Very good condition.

Archive of photographs, documenting the first attempts to build a settlement of “Agudat Israel” Pioneers in the Jezreel Valley, 1925-1926.
An important collection that includes thirty seven unknown photographs, that tell the forgotten story of the first pioneering attempt of its kind of Haredi Jews to establish an agricultural settlement in the Jezreel Valley.
At the first Large Conference of “Agudat Israel” in Vienna in 1923, among the resolutions passed, were the decisions to encourage settlement in Eretz Israel. A year later, “Agudat Israel” purchased about 4000 dunams of land in the Jezreel Valley, north of Afula, close to the Arab village Achsal. The land was divided into small plots and sold to Haredi buyers, mainly from Poland. In July 1925 the first group of pioneers settled the land and the settlement was named “Mahaneh Israel". Within a few months,the basic infrastructure was created, a carpentry workshop was established and residential huts were built. Wells were dug and a road was built to the place, and the land was made suitable for agriculture. During the same year, the “Agudat Israel” center in Frankfurt published a printed album containing photographs of the new settlement, to encourage additional buyers. (See below.) At the end of the year the place already had some 90 pioneers, mainly Hassidic youngsters from Poland, but various problems caused by lack of preparation and resources led to the official closure of the place in October 1926. After a second unsuccessful attempt the lands were rented out to Arabs and in the end the place was abandoned in 1932. In later years “Agudat Israel” made further attempts to return and settle the place, the last being in 1938 by the “Hafetz Hayim” group from Gedera and the “Kibbutz HaNoar HaAguddati” from Kfar Saba. The year was a Shemitta year and in the background were internal disagreements and various problems. The place was finally abandoned. Then the huts, the cow shed and the stables were dismantled, leaving only one stone building standing. [See attached material: Joseph Kopilevitz – "Agudat Israel Olah BeHomah – Hayishuv Mahaneh Israel Be Emek Yizreel", "Et-Mol", Issue 227, February 2013, pp. 21-24].
Here are rare photographs of the first attempt at settlement in the years 1925-1926. The collection includes photographs of the activities of the settlers, erection of houses, digging wells, and work in the fields; general view of houses in the settlement; group photo of the settlers, photographs of children and other residents; photographs of the synagogue and the “Heder”.
To the photographs is attached a printed booklet, “Album of the 'Agudat Israel' center for Eretz Israel Matters in Frankfurt am Main” Frankfurt, 1925. In this booklet are photographs of “Mahaneh Israel” (different from those in the photo collection) as well as plans and maps of the settlement. 37 photographs 16.5X17 cm. Good condition. Booklet 17.5X21 cm. poor condition, stains and damage from humidity.

Nineteen photographs of the Migdal settlement, [early 1920s, probably 1921-22]. Black/white and sepia photographs, mounted on Bristol sheets (one is annotated and dated: "Migdal 1922"). Portraying the settlement and its surroundings: members of "Gdud HaAvodah" and their tents, Mount Arbel, Arab shepherds, Banana plants, harvest, horse with a plough, Gedera with camels, and more. Average size 8X12 cm, Bristol sheets 16X23.5 cm. Good condition.