Autograph Letter Signed to Rabbi Reuven Katz, Chief Rabbi Petach Tikvah, thanking him for the gift of his book “Sha’arei Reuven.”

Relations between Ben Gurion and the Israeli Rabbinate being strained, to say the least, one notes here the ironical wit in the Prime Minister’s statement: “Certainly I will find in it [the book] several matters to which it is impossible to agree, as well as others to which I shall willingly accede. Both are dear to me, for there is room in the People of Israel for different opinions and viewpoints, provided they are bound by the love of Israel.”