A collection of newspapers issues from the day of declaration of the establishment of the state and the previous days. May, 1948.
* Issue of "Yediot Ma'ariv" of Iyar 4 1948. Headlines: "Jaffa surrenders", "Declaration of the state – tomorrow before Shabbat".
* Issue of "Haboker", Iyar 5, 1948. Headline: "State of Israel to be established today".
* Issue of "Yediot Ma'ariv", Iyar 5, 1948. Headline: "Mandate is dead! Long live our State!".
* Issue of "Yom HaMedinah, joint issue of all of the country's newspapers". Friday, Iyar 5, 1948.
Headline: "The People Declares the State of Israel".
* Issue of "Yediot Maariv", Nisan 11, 1948 with the map of Israel showing the ceasefire borders.
5 issues of newspapers and a single leaf. Size and condition vary.