Totza’ot HaBechirot LeKnesset HaShminit [Results of Elections to the Eighth Knesset]

AUCTION 61 | Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 274
(ISRAEL, STATE OF).

Totza’ot HaBechirot LeKnesset HaShminit [Results of Elections to the Eighth Knesset]

<<Signed by all members of the Knesset>> (117 of 120 members). pp. 28. Original boards gilt, blind-tooled with the Seal of the State. 8vo.

Jerusalem: 1974

Est: $5,000 - $7,000
The elections to the Eighth Knesset were held on 31st December, 1973. They had been postponed two months due to the Yom Kippur War. A government was formed with Golda Meir appointed Prime Minister. This is copy number 30 of the formal election results. It provides a detailed listing of all parties, number of votes received and names of all elected candidates to the Israeli Knesset. Next to each name is their original signature, including: Golda Meir, Yigal Alon, Abba Eban, Moshe Dayan, Pinchas Sapir, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Shlomo Lorincz, Kalman Kahana, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Shamir, Gideon Hausner and many other notables.