Beschreibung:

21 paper items on the subject of the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel and the activities of the Provisional State Council and the first Knesset, 1948-1949. The collection is composed of two Bristol cards, which were used as a cover for an invitation to one meeting out of the four meetings of the Council that were conducted between May 4, 1948 and May 14, 1948. 1. The People's Council, a guest card, first session, Tel-Aviv, the 25th of Nisan / May 4, 1948. On the reverse side, the name of the addressee has been erased. 2. The People's Council, the session of the declaration of Israel's independence, Tel Aviv, the 5th of Iyar (May 14), 1948. On the reverse side, the name of the addressee, a member of the Zionist Operating Committee, has been erased, but a note with his sitting arrangement is attached: First row, fourth seat on the right; two printed copies of the Israeli Declaration of Independence from the time of the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel (Megilat HaAtzma'ut), one is called The Declaration of the People's Council and the second one is called The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. Also two commercial advertisements with the the text of the Declaration (one rolled like a megilla [scroll]); two entrance tickets to the first Knesset meeting; six First Day Envelopes from the Provisional State Council's opening meeting (Jerusalem, Tu B'Shvat 1949), "The Knesset returns to the capital of Jerusalem", and "The first day of the opening of the second Knesset in the State of Israel"; a booklet of "The issue of the Nation's leadership – orders and notices" (May 10, 1948); the booklet "Divrei HaKnesset, Sessions 1-6 of the first Knesset", the booklet "The first budget of the State of Israel" (The Israel Ministry of Finance); additional items. From the collection of Arnie Druck.