Photograph-album presented to Sartre following his visit to Kibbutz LeHavot HaBashan, Israel. Featuring 15 black-and-white captioned photographs displaying the surroundings, facilities and daily life of the Kibbutz.

This unique photograph album was a gift to Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) the French existentialist philosopher, Nobel Prize winner and political activists following a visit on March 17th, 1967 to Kibbutz LeHavot HaBashan, located in the Hula Valley some ten kilometres southeast of Kiryat Shemona. Sartre and his wife Simone de Beauvoir arrived in Israel on March 14th, 1967 as part of a month long visit to the Middle East seeking to explore the possibilities of creating dialogue between the Arab and Israeli left. A special edition of “Les Temps Modernes” edited by Sartre and published in June 1967, was planned to coincide with this trip wherein Arabs and Israelis would place their views alongside each other. Of course the intended dialogue was swept aside due the cataclysmic events of the Six Day War that broke out that very month.