"HaHayil, Jewish Soldiers' Daily Newspaper". West Europe [probably Brussels], 1945-1946. Issues nos. 420-653.
The newspaper "HaHayil" was first printed in Italy under the name "LaChayal Alon Yomi LeChayalim Ivrim BeYabeshet Europe" (Daily newspaper for Jewish soldiers in Europe). Following the surrender of Nazi Germany, Jewish Brigade soldiers were transferred to the Low Countries, and the paper's editorial moved to Brussels, where the newspaper was printed with a new title. Offered here is a complete collection of all of the issues printed in Brussels, documenting the life of Jewish soldiers in Europe post World War II and the defeat of Germany.
Among other subjects, the articles deal at length with the subject of Palestine and the Yishuv – Illegal immigrant ships, establishment of new settlements, the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, relations between the Arabs and the Nazi regime and other subjects; the holocaust and She'erit Hapletah – first testimonies by survivors, maps and plans of ghettos and camps, news from the Nuremberg trials, testimonies by Jewish prisoners of war, attacks on Jewish populations after the war, displaced persons camps and more topics; as well as internal information about the brigade and its soldiers – sports competitions, letters from soldiers, testimonies and documents recording the Brigade battles (among them sketches of the movement of forces in the battle on the Senio River), tables and lists of the various units and the numbers of serving soldiers, and other subjects.
The paper also features poems and essays by authors who volunteered to the British army, documenting their experiences at the time – the poets Dov Chomsky, Amir Gilboa, Noah Stern (who was part of the editorial staff of the paper), Amazia Barlas (Independence War casualty), and others. Numerous photographs from Europe and Palestine also appear in the issues, as well as caricatures and drawings by various artists (Mane Katz, Henri Pieck, Avigdor Arikha, Esther Luria and others).
The issues are bound in four volumes according to the order of their appearance. On the front covers of each of the volumes appears a pasted note with the symbol of the paper and below it the number of issues (typewritten). The covers are signed by the editor, Shimshon Oxman (later – Shimon Arad), a senior official of the Foreign Ministry, who fought in the Jewish Brigade during World War II. Markings in pencil alongside essays written by Oxman appear in some of the issues.
Enclosed: LaChayal, daily news bulletin for Jewish soldiers in Europe. Italy. 5.3.1945. Issue no 1. Special edition of the paper dated 21.6.1946, present for readers of "HaHayil" from the "editorial and the administration".
Total of 234 issues bound in four volumes, approx. 33.5 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Stains and some defects. Tears at margins of a number of leaves. Damaged and slightly worn bindings. Tears and open tears to spines. One volume is lacking spine; its back cover and last leaves are partly detached.

Album of photographs and a collection of items which belonged to Etzel member Zrubavel Lilior from Haifa, who was arrested in 1944 and was detained for six months in Palestine (in Acre and in Latroun) and 45 months (!) in Africa. [Sembel, Asmara, Eritrea; Carthago, Sudan; Gilgil, Kenya, 1944/1945 until July 1948].
· Album with about 250 photographs taken in the different British Detention camps in Africa – in Eritrea, Sudan and Kenya – documenting daily routine in prison and especially sports competitions organized by the detainees. · Two improvised wooden sports medals made by hand, "In Asmara Exile", Hanukkah 1946, and awarded to the second place winner of high jump and long jump competitions. · "Service certificate" on behalf of Etzel chief headquarters, signed by Menachem Begin, with personal information about the holder of the certificate, including the total period of imprisonment and detention. · Member card (temporary), issued by the Kenyan Exiles, with the period of time of imprisonment in Palestine and in Exile.
The album contains numerous photographs documenting sports competitions – mainly football and athletics – among the detainees, photographs of theater plays performed by the detainees (including photographs from the play "Gale HaYam"), group photographs with the sign "Zion Exiles in Asmara", photographs documenting visit of South African chief rabbi in the camp, daily life in the camp (washing, haircut, kitchen, dining room, etc.), as well as a photograph titled "First hours of freedom". The album opens with 13 photographs of drawings by Etzel member, the painter from Haifa Leopold Pinchasovich, depicting the Sembel camp near Asmara during the year 1947, and ends with a number of photographs taken in Palestine after Lilior's release and a number of photographs of views and people taken in Africa (most probably not taken by Lilior).
Size of photographs varies, 4.5 X 4.5 cm. to 17 X 12 cm. Good overall condition. Some stains to several photographs. Some detached photographs. Album: 41X29 cm, in good condition. Wooden medals: approx. 6X3.5 cm (diameter: 3.5 cm). Very good condition.
Literature: Etzel in Red Haifa by Yehudah Lapidot (Hebrew). Published by "Brit Chayale HaEtzel", Tel-Aviv, 2006. Seventh Chapter – "In Prison".

Ten newspapers and supplements printed on the days around the UN resolution and the Declaration of Independence. 1947-1948.
1. "The State will be established", special edition of "Haaretz". "Haaretz" press, Tel-Aviv, [29.11.1947]. Single leaf with the announcement: "A majority of two-thirds of the United Nations General Assembly decided in favor of establishing two states – Jewish and Arab – in Palestine".
2. Haaretz, issue no. 8586, dated 30.11.1947. Headline: "It was decided to establish a Jewish State".
3. HaBoker, daily paper, issue no. 3674, dated 30.11.1947. Headline: "Jewish State was approved, 33 states for, 13 against, 11 abstained… today you are a nation!"
4. Mivrak, evening paper, issue no. 125, dated 13.5.1948. Headline: "Agreement Signed – Jaffa Surrenders". Second edition.
5. "Yom Hamedinah", joint paper of the country's newspapers. Friday, May 14, 1948.
6. "The Mandate from Beginning to End" published by "Yediot Maariv", illustrated supplement, May 15,1948.
7. Mivrak, evening paper, issue no. 128, 17.5.1948. Headline: "Jewish army entered Ramla".
8. Yediot Yerushalayim", issue no. 34, 17.5.1948. Headline: "State of Israel fights the enemy who is attacking from four sides".
9. Issue of Minhelet HaAm, edicts and announcements. Published in Tel-Aviv on 10.5.1948. "Hapoel Hatzair" press, Tel-Aviv, 1948. No other issues were printed.
10. Iton Rishmi, issue no. 1. Printed with authorization granted by the Provisional Government, "Hapoel Hatzair" press, Tel-Aviv, 14.5.1948.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains, creases, folding marks and slight tears at margins of some issues. "Yom HaMedinah" paper in fair condition, with tears at margins and along folding line, and strips of adhesive tape at margins and along the front page folding line. "Yediot Yerushalayim" in fair condition, with long tears at margins.

Seventeen documents, tickets and photographs from the estate of Shlomo Kaddar, one of the organizers and photographers of the ceremony of the Independence Declaration of Israel. Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, 1948-1953 (most of the items are from 1948).
Diplomat and public figure Shlomo Kaddar (1913-1987) was born in Münster, Germany, to a liberal Jewish family. In his youth, he was attracted to the Zionist movements that flourished in Germany at the time. In 1933, he immigrated to Palestine with "Aliyat HaNo'ar" and was accepted as a member of Kibbutz Na'an. In the early 1940s, he joined the Haganah underground movement where he was appointed a senior guide and served as a commander in the Jerusalem zone. In 1948, prior to the declaration of independence, Kaddar held a senior position in the government secretariat. As such, he was involved in planning and implementing some of the most important events in the early history of the State of Israel: flying the coffin of count Folke Bernadotte to Rhodes, organizing the first IDF military parade and more. The most significant event with which he was involved was the Declaration of Independence of Israel. Kaddar was responsible for preparing and designing the hall in which the ceremony took place, printing the Scroll of Independence for the ceremony participants, and organizing the ceremony itself. When the ceremony ended, Kaddar took the signed vellum Scroll of Independence and deposited it in the safe at the Anglo-Palestine Bank on Herzl Street.
After the establishment of the State of Israel Kaddar turned to a diplomatic career, serving as an Israeli representative in several foreign countries and cities (Paris, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Prague and more) and in senior positions in the Jerusalem Municipality. Kaddar died in 1987 at the age of 73.
The collection includes important documents from the Kaddar Archive, related both to the Declaration of Independence itself and to the period in which it took place:
Documents and photographs from the Declaration of Independence ceremony
1. Draft of the Scroll of Independence, typewritten and duplicated, with four corrections in handwriting (all of which appear in the final version of the scroll) and one interesting typewritten correction: in paragraph 13, concerning the provisional institutes, the text "the provisional state council, and the executive council" was revised and changed to emphasize the hierarchy among the institutes: "The Provisional State council will act as the state council and its executive institute." [3] pp (typewritten on three separate leaves).
2. "Declaration of the Provisional Council, Iyar 5, 5708, May 14, 1948." Brochure with the final version of the text of the Scroll of Independence. Apparently, this document was prepared only a few hours prior to the declaration ceremony by Dorit Rosen, secretary of Ze'ev Scharf, and distributed to participants in the ceremony. (See: Mordechai Naor, "Great Friday, 5 Iyar, 5708", published by "Mikve Israel", 2015, pg 83). 3 pp.
3. Entrance ticket to the ceremony hall, in the name of Shlomo Kaddar, dated May 13, 1948 (one day before the ceremony), with his photograph, ink stamp of the "Haganah" and signature of the authorizing officer.
4. Official invitation to the "Declaration of Independence Session" on behalf of "Minhelet Ha'am" (the Provisional Government), printed on May 13,1948: "[...] We are honored to send you an invitation […] Please keep the content of this invitation secret […]."
5. "Mo’etzet Ha'am, Declaration of Independence Session, Tel-Aviv, May 14, 1948." Entrance ticket to the ceremony, in the name of Shlomo Kaddar. A note is attached with the seat assigned to Kaddar (row 5, seat 3, in the middle).
6-13. Eight black and white photographs from the ceremony, taken, most probably, by Shlomo Kaddar. The photographs are slightly different from the ones taken by the professional photographers who were officially invited to the ceremony (Rudi Wiesenstein, Benno Rothenberg, Hans Pinn and others). They document the ceremony from a different, original and possibly unique perspective: two (different) photographs of David Ben Gurion reading the declaration; Moshe Sharet and David Ben Gurion shaking hands; Golda Meir signing the Scroll of Independence; David Remez signing the Scroll of Independence; Israel Galili and Moshe Sneh during the ceremony; a crowd gathering at the entrance to the Tel-Aviv Museum where the ceremony took place; photographers waiting in the street for the end of the ceremony. Pasted to thick leaves. Enclosed: original cardboard folder.
Items related to later public activities of Shlomo Kaddar:
1. First Knesset, entrance card to the Knesset offices, in the name of Shlomo Kaddar. Ink-stamped: "State of Israel, First Knesset, Secretariat." Handwritten inscription on the upper margins noting the seat assigned to Kaddar in the hall.
2. Membership card in the "Central Elections Committee of the Constituent Assembly" in the name of Shlomo Kaddar, dated January 23, 1949. With portrait photo of Kaddar, ink-stamp of the committee and the signature of the general secretary Moshe Brachmann.
3. Letter dated December 18, 1949, typewritten on official State of Israel letterhead, sent by Avraham Biran (Bergman), district of Jerusalem officer, to Shlomo Kaddar at the Israeli legation in Paris. Ink-stamped by the legation.
4. Letter of greeting from Moshe Sharet to Shlomo Kaddar; handwritten on official Foreign Ministry stationery, dated July 13, 1953.
Total of 17 items. Sizes and conditions vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: Private collection, Israel; purchased at Ben-Ami Endres Auctions, Israel, April 1998.

"First Day of Hebrew Post". Minister Sheet (souvenir sheet) - with the first nine stamps of the State of Israel, May 16, 1948.
Nine "Do'ar Ivri" postage stamps, in the value of 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 50, 250, 500 and 1000 Mils, pasted on an official souvenir-sheet on top of which appears the printed caption "Iyar 7, 5708, 16.5.1948" and "Do'ar Ivri" and on the bottom part – "Hayom HaRishon Shel HaDo'ar HaIvri" (first day of Hebrew post). Stamped with six postal stamps from Tel-Aviv, May 16, 1948.
This souvenir sheet is named "Minister Sheet" since it was distributed to ministers and to VIP's. In its first edition only 40 copies were printed, on thick yellowish paper, and the stamps were pasted on them between midnight and the morning of May 16, 1948.
Since all of the stamps qualified for sale were already sent to the post offices, it was decided to use for these sheets experimental stamps, or stamps which were especially perforated in Perf. 10 line; as a result, on some of the sheets appear stamps with particularly rare perforations.
This sheet includes stamps in the value of 1000 and 250 Mils with a rare perforation of 10X10; a 15 Mils stamp with a very rare perforation of 10¾; stamps in the value of 50, 10 and 3 Mils with a perforation of 10X11; the 3, 50 and 250 Mils stamps have perf. 10 line on the bottom of the tab (which does not exist in regular stamps). In addition, the 250 Mils stamp was printed on thin yellow paper.
26 X 21.5 cm. Good condition.
Enclosed is a certificate of authenticity.