Collection of Booklets and Photographs – Provisional Institutions for the Establishment of the State of Israel – ...

Collection of Booklets and Photographs – Provisional Institutions for the Establishment of the State of Israel – the People's Council, the People's Administration, the Provisional State Council and More – 1948-1949
Nineteen booklets, photographs and souvenirs documenting the activities of the provisional institutions for the establishment of the State of Israel. Tel Aviv and elsewhere, ca. 1948-1949.
Six booklets, including: • "People's Administration sheet, directives and notices". Tel Aviv, 1 Iyar (May 10) 1948. • "People's Council". Tel Aviv, 7 Iyar (May 16) 1948, "Printed with permission of the Provisional Government". Protocols of the four sessions of the People's Council, which took place between May 4th and May 14th. • "Provisional State Council, first session". Tel Aviv, 7 Iyar (May 16) 1948. Protocol booklet. • "Makeup of the Provisional State Council and its committees". [Tel Aviv?], Kislev (December) 1948. Booklet detailing the members of eleven committees of the Provisional State Council: the defense committee, the constitutional committee, the state emblem and flag committee and other committees. • "Records: The legal codex", issue no. 1. [Tel Aviv], February 17, 1949. • And more.
Currency order for 1948, mimeograph of a typewritten document. The order states that the Israeli Lira will become as the official currency of the State of Israel and repeals the Mandatory currency laws.
Eight photographs from sessions of the provisional councils, including: • Three photographs from the swearing-in ceremony of Chaim Weizmann as president of the Provisional State Council on September 30, 1948 (Chaim Weizmann's speech, David Ben Gurion's speech and Yosef Sprinzak's speech). • Two photographs from the swearing-in ceremony of Chaim Weizmann as President of the State of Israel, on February 17, 1949, attended by David Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan, rabbis and ministers and other dignitaries (the photographs are identical; one is in a large format). • And more.
Four souvenir items: • Pin commemorating the establishment of the State of Israel, designed in the shape of the Partition Plan with the inscription: "State of Israel, 5 Iyar 1948". • "Musical postcard" (45 RPM) with a recording of the Declaration of Independence ceremony and "HaTikvah". • Souvenir card published by The Grand Rapids Press newspaper: on one side is an illustration of an Israeli family waving the Israeli flag, and on the other is a photograph of the newspaper issue reporting on the declaration. • "Shanah Tovah" card with a picture from the swearing-in ceremony of Chaim Weizmann as President of Israel.
Enclosed: Announcement of the Chief Commander of the Irgun to the People of Zion. [Jerusalem, ca. 1948]. "Broadcasted on 6 Iyar (May 15) 1948, on 'Kol HaHerut', the broadcasting station of the Irgun"; letter from July 1, 1948 from Otte Wallish to the representative of Keren HaYesod regarding the Israeli flags and the portrait of Theodor Herzl lent by Keren HaYesod (apparently with regard to the flags and portrait hung in the hall during the Declaration of Independence).
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains. Filing holes, creases and blemishes (mostly minor). Tears and restored tears to some of the items. Three missing pages at the end of the Provisional State Council session protocol booklet
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.