26 press photographs from the War of Independence, many of them documenting the Arab side of the war. Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Safed and elsewhere, 1948.
Among them: a photograph from the day the port of Haifa was handed to the IDF – a formation of naval officers raising the flag of Israel and the flag of the Israeli navy for the first time in the port, upon the entrance of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion; two Jewish snipers crouching before an embrasure in an improvised "Fortress" made of blocks on a Tel-Aviv rooftop; an Egyptian fighter aircraft which was shot down at the sea-shore of Tel-Aviv; an Arab propaganda photograph – a staged picture of a Palmach fighter surrendering to armed Arabs (the fighter in the photograph is an Arab 'actor' in costume); a photograph of Jaffa as a ghost town, after being abandoned by its residents; a photograph of Abdullah I of Jordan and the Iraqi regent Abd al-Ilah in Oman, wearing military uniforms several weeks before the Arab armies' invasion of Palestine; a photograph of the Arab Legion commander, John Bagot Glubb, talking to one of his officers in Jerusalem; Arab fighters lying in wait for Jewish convoys on Al-Qastal; an Arab sniper piercing a water pipe supplying a Jewish settlement close to Jerusalem; Syrian fighters during a temporary truce; Egyptian fighters during a temporary truce; Arab women in line for receiving cooking oil in Jerusalem; and more.
On verso of most of the photographs there are stamps and handwriting, on verso of some of them there are information notes and mounted newspaper clippings. A Daily Picture Order form on verso of one photograph.
Size and condition of photographs vary, approx. 15X20.5-25.5X20 cm. Good overall condition. Stains and blemishes (most of them minor, on verso). Handwritten marks on recto of some.