Collection of Autographs of the Signatories to Israel’s Declaration of Independence (see details below).

(ISRAEL, STATE OF).

Israel

1955-57, 1967

* With: Abba Eban. Typed speech (12-pages), signed by Eban. Delivered at the UN in New York, on June 6th, 1967, the day on which the IDF liberated Jerusalem’s Old City. The speech justifies Israel’s position while fervently calling for peace. Eban’s lengthy speech was designed as a stalling tactic on the part of Israel, to ensure it could shore up its military gains before a ceasefire was declared. * And: Autographs of Israel’s first two Prime Ministers: David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett.

* Autographs of Signatories to the Declaration of Independence: Collected as part of a fundraising campaign in 1957. This collections consists of the autograph signatures of 30 of the 37 signers of the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel. (Several had passed away before this initiative took place). Various letters and clippings with signatures of: Meir Argov. Daniel Auster. David Ben-Gurion. Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. Mordechai Bentov. Peretz Bernstein. Rachel Cohen-Kagan. Eliyahu Dobkin. Avraham Granot. Yitzhak Gruenbaum. Kalman Kahana. Saadia Kobashi. Moshe Kol. Yitzhak-Meir Levin. Meir David Loewenstein. Zvi Lurie. Yehuda Leib Maimon. Golda Meir. Nahum Nir. David-Zvi Pinkas. Berl Repetur. Pinchas Rosen. Herzl Rosenblum. Zvi Segal. Haim-Moshe Shapira. Moshe Sharett. Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit. Ben-Zion Sternberg. Meir Vilner. Zerach Warhaftig. Aharon Zisling.