Beschreibung:

More than 1000 paper items, handwritten and printed, which belonged to first Knesset Member and advocate Moshe Ben Ami mostly about trials and claims, Tel-Aviv, 1930s through the 1950s. Hebrew, Arabic and some English. The archive includes: letters and announcements from public entities (Israeli Police, Tel-Aviv municipal sanitation department, Association of Jewish Lawyers in Tel-Aviv, municipal sanitary supervisor of Tel-Aviv, execution office), legal forms (deeds of sale and mortgage bills, forms of announcement to a defendant from the "municipal court of Tel-Aviv", forms on behalf of the Jaffa Land Register Office, and more), as well as receipts, invoices, handwritten notes, telegrams and architectural drawings (some for Ben Ami's house on 11 Nehemia Street, prepared by architect Zaki Shlush), documents recording transfer of plots, lands and property in Tel-Aviv, various contracts, many documents in Arabic and more items. The archive also includes dozens of letters related to public activity with which Ben Ami was involved, including: a letter to David Ben-Gurion dated 3.11.1957, regarding the incident when a hand grenade was thrown into the Knesset plenum; a letter handwritten by Moshe Toledano, chief rabbi of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa; two letters hand-signed by the Rishon LeZion Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel; about 20 official calling cards and greeting cards from personalities and public entities (some signed and dedicated in handwriting); and more. On many of the documents in this collection appear income-stamps and ink-stamps. The documents are filed in 10 cardboard folders with handwritten titles. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.