"To Gibli, Your Absence Period". Album with 44 photos of Unit 101. The album was prepared for Yitzhak Gibli by Ran Zur, 1954.
Yitzhak Gibli (1930-2008). Joined the Palmach at the age of 17 and fought in the Independence War. After serving in IDF as Rehavam Ze'evi's driver, he joined Unit 101 in its early days, in 1953. During a retaliation operation of IDF in Jordan on June 28, 1954, Gibli was seriously injured by fire shot by the Jordanian Legion. While injured, Gibli insisted that his friends leave him and rescue themselves, a decision which led to his captivity. While Gibli was absent, his friends worked tirelessly to release him and organized operations aimed at abducting Jordanian prisoners to be exchanged for Gibli. These operations were called "GI"L operations" (Gibli Yitzhak Lehofesh) (in time Gibli's son was named Gil). After his release, Gibli was decorated with a medal for distinguished service for his conduct during action and in prison.
Presented here is an album prepared by his friend from Unit 101, Ran Zur, with photos of operations which took place while Gibli was in captivity (photos from1953 also appear in the album).
The album contains photos portraying the unit in training, patrols or while returning from action: on a command car prior to a retaliation operation (1954), a small group commanded by Meir Har-Zion returning from a patrol (winter 1953), preparations for a patrol on camel back on the Egyptian border; "return from an attack"; "in the base"; "landing course"; Meir Har-Zion and his house in "Ahuzat Shoshana" on "Har HaRuchot", and more.
Photos of The Unit's fighters, among them: Meir Har-Zion, Eitan Bentov (Nevet), Yonah Bendman, Guy Kochva, Yishai Zimermann, Shmuel Umany, Irmi Bradnov, Shimon Kahner (Kacha), Jacki Lind, Zeev Slutzky, and others. Attached are nine additional photos including two of Rehavam Ze'evi (ca. 1950).
Average size: 9X6 cm, album: 17X23 cm. Several photos are missing. A metal relief (a farmer) is inlaid in the album's binding. Overall good condition.

About 50 photos (black and white), of prominent Israeli figures – late 1960s-1970s. Among them: twenty two photos of Yoni Netanyahu, in his private life and military service, photos of his wedding and after his injury in the Six Day War; photos of Ezer Weizmann and Anwar Sadat in Camp David; portrait photos of Moshe Dayan, Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin and Haim Herzog with Margaret Thatcher, and more.
Size of photos varies, 9X13 cm to 24X18 cm. Overall good condition.

Eight undivided postcards printed in honor of Wilhelm II's visit to Eretz Israel, 1898.
Portrayed in the postcards are various sites in Eretz Israel. The Emperor appears in some of the postcards.
Average size 9X14 cm. Good condition. Three postcards were mailed.

1. Illustrated postcard in memory of Shmuel Sapir. Fine illustration in the style of Ephraim Moshe Lilien. A portrait of Sapir and a poem in his memory at the upper part. In the center – illustration of an angel weeping on his grave. Signed (in print): "Daniel Kanterovich". Jerusalem, 1917. Poor condition. Creases and tears. Central folding mark (with a tear on it). Lower right corner is torn.
2. Illustrated postcard. At the upper part an illustration of the globe, moon, and sun with the inscription "Yafa Torah im Derech Eretz"; in the center appears the inscription "Al Shlosha Devarim HaOlam Omed", and an illustration of the Tablets of the Law; on the lower part a couple of lions and a Star of David. Printed in Berlin. Fair-poor condition. Spotting, creases and tears.

Six postcards of the "Jiskor" series, with portraits of prominent figures, murdered in Eretz Israel at the end of the Ottoman period. Berlin, [ca.1918].
Postcards displaying portraits of prominent figures. Among them: Meir Hazanovitch, HaShomer organization member who was murdered in 1913 in Merhavia; Avraham Yossef Berl, a guard in Sejera who was murdered in 1910; Yossef Zaltsman, of the Second Aliya, who was murdered in 1913; and others. A text in German appears next to each portrait.
The portraits, illustrated by the Painter Mitchell Loeb, were taken out of "Yizkor", essays in memory of Jewish Yishuv victims – workers and guards who were murdered on duty. The book was first published in Yiddish in 1916, edited by Ya'akov Zrubavel, Yitzchak Ben-Zvi and Alexander Heshin. In 1918 the German edition of the book was published, translated by Gershom Scholem.
Good condition.