Collection of JNF publications, stamps and paper labels, [ca. 1940s].
• Postcard with three JNF stamps (stamp with portrait of Haim Weizmann, stamp with illustration of Herzliya gymnasium and stamp with illustration of a landscape after an engraving by Hermann Struck). • Two promotional leaflets - "JNF greeting cards (telegrams) sold here" / "JNF stamps and envelopes sold here" (Design: Kneller). • Leaflet - "JNF stamp, necessary on each letter sent by an individual or an institution!" (Design: Machner-Wallish). • Two paper labels with portraits of Herzl and Bialik. • Paper label - receipt for donation to "JNF national committee for Eretz Israel", with details completed by hand. • "Jubilee catalogue of JNF stamps 1902-1942". Published by "Agudat Hoveve Bulim", Tel-Aviv, 1942.
Total of 8 items. Size and condition vary.
חתימות, מכתבים והקדשות
Autographs, Letters and Dedications

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.

A group photograph from Menachem Begin's visit to the United States, signed by Begin and some of the other photographed persons. USA, [November-December 1948].
Photograph portraying Menachem Begin, Yitzchak Gurion, Yitzchak Friedman, Mordechai Ra'anan, Shmuel Tamir, and others, sitting around a table. The photograph is signed by hand by Begin (in English) and bears a short dedication handwritten by Begin: "With thanks for friendship". Along Begin's signature appear signatures by Tamir, Ra'anan, Friedman (who signs "Yiztchak Elizur") and Gurion, and one more signature. The photograph is ink-stamped on verso "Handy & Boesser Photographers… Newark, N. J".
Late in November 1948 Menachem Begin, head of "Herut" movement went on an official visit to the USA, in order to raise money and enlist supporters for his movement. The delegation that accompanied him included, among others, Shmuel Tamir (one of "Herut" founders), Yitzchak Gurion and ETZEL commanders Mordechai Ra'anan and Yitzchak Friedman ("Elizur"). Begin visited New-York and Washington, met with politicians, and held press conferences. Following this visit the "New York Times" published a letter, signed by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and others, condemning "Herut" movement and presenting it as a terrorist movement.
25.5X20.5 cm. Good condition. Some creases and stains at margins.