An envelope with a first Hebrew stamp attached to Herzl Horowitz's letter writing to his daughter to keep the stamp.

An envelope with a first Hebrew stamp attached to Herzl Horowitz's letter writing to his daughter to keep the stamp.
In the letter, the father writes to his daughter, Shlomit [Horowitz], my dear and dear daughter - I hereby send you a first Hebrew stamp, which will soon cease to be used.

With a blessing of health and success, your father loves you [Herzl].

The official Blank surrounded a folk hospital founded by Hadassah.

Stamp of the Jewish State, KKL-JNF, dated November 30, 1947, just before the establishment of the State of Israel.

Condition; The letter with folding marks, and a few slight stains. Envelope with folding mark, slight tear at opening opening, stains. The stamp, yellowing.

Herzl Horowitz: Born in White Russia, in the town of Rakov, to a Zionist mother who encouraged her husband to immigrate to Eretz Israel. At the age of ten, in 1912, he immigrated to Israel with his parents and brothers and the family settled in the "Mahane Yosef" neighborhood near Neve Tzedek.

During the First World War, the mother was deported to Egypt, while the father and children wandered around the country and reached Gedera, where they lived in a farmer's cellar. They worked in the fields and vineyards of the farmer.

In 1920, he began his teaching studies at the Ezra seminar in Jerusalem, where he taught for two years in Mishmar Hayarden.

In the years 1925-1928, Herzl Horowitz served as a teacher at the Hebrew school in Rishon Letzion. He was said to have been musical and loved poetry and organized a choir at school. Lord Balfour, during his visit to the colony, was received by the teacher and his students. Later, he went to the United States, where he studied accounting and taught Hebrew to the children of the Jewish community. Upon his return to Israel, he served as an accountant for the People's Health Fund in Jerusalem. He died in Tel Aviv.