Album comprising some 230 photographs documenting, inter alia, the service of a soldier in the Givati Brigade during the War of Independence. Various places in Palestine/Israel, 1946-49.
Photographs depicting armored vehicles breaching the blockade on the road to Jerusalem in the course of Operation Nachshon (April 1948); MV Altalena in flames in the waters off Frischmann Beach, Tel Aviv (June 1948); Kibbutz Negba in the aftermath of the battles there (1948); conquest of the Arab villages of Khulda and Abu Shusha (1948); Haganah forces in the Ben Shemen Youth Village (1947); airplanes on the tarmac of the Tel Nof air base; and more. At the beginning of the album are a number of photographs showing Haganah forces engaged in training exercises before the war (1946), and at the end are photos of excursions to places throughout the country (to Eilat, Naharyim, Beersheba, and additional locations in the days following the war, 1949).
The photographs are arranged in an album with handwritten captions and dates, and most are also titled and dated on verso.
Roughly 230 photographs, size and condition vary. Overall good condition. A few are mounted onto the album leaves with adhesive tape. Album: approx. 25X36 cm. Several leaves partly detached. Creases, stains, and tears to edges of tissue guards. Binding slightly worn, with adhesive tape to length of spine. Several newspaper clippings mounted onto inside binding.