About 30 pamphlets, information leaves and paper items, mostly printed, documenting Kibbutz Dorot during the War of Independence. Dorot, ca. 1948 (several items from earlier years).
Items include:
* "Dorot, Information Leaf", fifteen pamphlets (no. 2-15 and 17) from May-June 1948. Each pamphlet includes instructions to the kibbutz members (digging canals and bunkers, camouflage, working under fire and more), news from the war fronts (Latrun battles, the bombing of Damascus, supply convoys to remote settlements, violation of the ceasefire by Egypt and more) and additional information.
* "Settling of Accounts", typewritten and stenciled leaf reporting a meeting between the kibbutz's representatives and David Ben-Gurion, Israel Galili and Levi Shkolnik (Eshkol) on the subject of the kibbutz's condition in wartime.
* A program, handwritten on two work cards (of the "Department for Fruit-Picking and Packing"), of the "Candle-Lighting Ceremony for the Souls of the Fallen". One of the cards bears the inscription "The Jewish partisan song" is written on one of the cards.
* Three leaves, typewritten and stenciled, in memory of the fallen soldier Chaim Bonhardy, a kibbutz member killed while planting mines to protect the kibbutz property.
* "Permanent Order for the Gatekeepers", typewritten and stenciled leaf with instructions regarding the entry of vehicles into kibbutz territory. Printed by the "Regional Headquarters" on June 15, 1948.
* Three leaves with a collection of news items from the Voice of Israel and the BBC, typewritten and stenciled, from June 1948.
* And more.
Enclosed: two newspaper pages with an article on the kibbutz, on the occasion of its five-year anniversary.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains and creases. Folding marks, tears and open tears to margins of some of the items.