Twenty six letters sent to the director of "Kol Israel" Zvi (Hazy) Zinder, by politicians and public figures. Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Sde Boker, London and New-York (most letters from Jerusalem), mid 1930s to the late 1960s (one letter from 1984). Hebrew and English.
Among the letters: • Three brief handwritten letters from David Ben-Gurion, two from 1964 and one from 1967, concerning personal matters. • Two letters from Moshe Sharet, one on the occasion of the appointment of Zinder as director of "Kol Israel" (typewritten and signed by hand). • Three letters from Teddy Kollek, one from 1953 concerning improvement of "Kol Israel". • Eight letters from Gershon Agron (sent in the late 1930s or early 1940s), recording the early stages of Zinder's journalistic career as a "Palestine Post" reporter.• Letters from Moshe Dayan, Eleanor Rossevelt , Abba Eban, Joseph (Tomy) Lapid, Shimon Peres and others.
Enclosed: nine printed copies of letters from Zinder to the above senders; a letter from Moshe Koll to Hemda Zinder (Zvi Zinder's wife); a hand written note to Hemda Zinder from Hadassah Samuel.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains, creases, some tears and filing holes to a number of letters. Handwritten inscriptions on a number of items.