An album with approx. 55 photographs documenting the training of new IDF soldiers during the War of Independence. [Israel, late 1940s].
Presumably, the album had belonged to a soldier in an IDF basic training camp during the war and it contains an interesting documentation of the training, weapons and uniforms of the IDF soldiers during this period. The photographs depict: soldiers signing a form with their entrance to the camp, shooting training with a Karabiner 98 kurz rifle, training lesson with a Bren machine gun, soldiers watching from the roofs "in face of an aerial attack of the enemy", members of Gachal (Recruitment from Abroad) arriving to the camp, Hebrew lessons, fitness training and sports competitions, parades and roll calls, singing and dancing in the camp, and more.
The photographs are mounted to the leaves of the album (two photographs are detached) and covered with tissue guards. Some of them are captions by hand (Hebrew). Some are stamped on verso: "T. Brauner, Tel Aviv" (Teddy Brauner?).
Size of photographs: approx. 8.5X19 cm. (some of them are larger or smaller). Good condition. Size of album: 23X33 cm. Minor blemishes to leaves. Creases, stains and tears to tissue guards. The binding is slightly worn.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

Approx. 340 photographs; most of them are family photographs from the 1940s and 1950s and some of them document Palestine during the years before the establishment of the state, the early days of the IDF, the young Women's Corps and more. Israel, 1940s and 1950s (several earlier or later photographs).
Including: * A family album with approx. 300 photographs. Most of the photographs document the life of the family during the decades around the establishment of the State of Israel and some document the political upheavals themselves: HaMelachim St. of Haifa after the bombing of the British CID in 1974; the Declaration of Independence day in Haifa; photographs of soldiers of the newly established Medical Corps; and more.
* Approx. 40 photographs documenting Jewish soldiers in the British army, members of underground organizations and the early days of the IDF: a parade on Jewish Soldier Day in Tel-Aviv, 1942; Lechi member Henya Dessau in the London Square in Tel-Aviv, 1947. An inscription was added on the photograph condemning the British occupation; a concert conducted by Arthur Rubenstein in honor of the conquering of Be'er Sheva, in the Old City of Be'er Sheva, November, 1948; a trip of the command of the 201 battalion of the Women's Corps to the Negev. Ca. early 1949. Including photographs of the battalion commander Shoshana Warner (later Chief Officer of the Women's Corps), the ruins of Kibbutz Negba and the conquered Iraq Suwaydan Police Fort; the Independence Day Parade in Haifa, 1953.
Many photographs are captioned on verso. Several photographs are stamped on verso with the stamp "Photo Alexander" (Hebrew).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Ownership inscriptions on verso of several of the photographs.

Photograph from the first wedding that took place by the Western Wall after the conquest of Jerusalem. June 6, 1967. [Photographer: Aharon Zuckerman].
The photograph depicts the bride and groom in white clothes next to soldiers in combat attire: uniforms, helmets and rifles. On verso of the photograph, a stamp of a news agency.
Approx. 16X21.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases and stains (mainly on verso).