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Auction 37 · Lot 204
Autograph Letter Signed to Rabbi Reuven Katz, Chief Rabbi Petach Tikvah, thanking him for the gift of his book “Sha’arei Reuven.”
- Estimate
- $600–$900
- Hammer price
- $500
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
BEN-GURION, DAVID
Place
Sdeh Boker
Publication
14th January, 1954
Description
Hebrew. Single page. Blue ink on lined tissue paper. Accompanied by envelope printed “Medinath Yisrael” [State of Israel] and signed on reverse “D. Ben-Gurion, Sdeh Boker.”
summary
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.”