Auction 64 Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
By Kedem
Jan 22, 2019
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem., Israel
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LOT 135:

Extensive Collection of Press Photographs – Israel, 1970s to 1990s – More than One Thousand Photographs – ...

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Extensive Collection of Press Photographs – Israel, 1970s to 1990s – More than One Thousand Photographs – Politicians, Military Officers, Security Events and More / Thousands of Negatives
More than one thousand press photographs and thousands of negatives. Israel and the Middle East, ca. 1970s to 1990s.
Most of the photographs in this collection are from the 1970s or early 1980s, and they offer a wide scope documentation of the public life in Israel in these years. Among them:
• Hundreds of photographs of Israeli leaders, politicians and public figures – Menachem Begin, Yitzchak Rabin, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Yigal Alon, Ariel Sharon, Yitzchak Shamir, Yitzchak Navon, Shimon Peres and others.
• Hundreds of photographs of IDF and Israeli Security Forces - IDF soldiers in South Lebanon during "Operation Litani", in 1978; inauguration of "Merkava" Tank in Jerusalem in 1978; soldiers observing tents and caravans in Shilo settlement; photographs of terror attack scenes in Israel; and more.
• Dozens of photographs documenting the peace process between Israel and Egypt; numerous photographs of meetings between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli representatives; numerous photographs from the visit of Henri Kissinger in Israel in 1975; Dov Sion and the Egyptian General Saif-A-Din in an Israeli-Egyptian joint committee for enforcement of the peace treaty, in 1979; IDF soldiers folding the Israeli flag in a formal ceremony prior to the withdrawal from an occupied area in Sinai; and more.
• Hundreds of photographs from various events: protest of Shalom Achshav activists along a Tel-Aviv road, 1978; arrest of Arab protestors against Jewish prayers on the Temple Mount; Yizhar Cohen performing with his group in the Eurovision contest; visit of Elizabeth Taylor in the Western Wall; numerous photographs of sports groups; and more.
Information notes for the press (in English) are pasted on the margins of most of the photographs, and on the back of a small number appear handwritten inscriptions and ink-stamps. Names of photographers appear on the back of some of the photographs: David Rubinger, Rachamim Israeli, Shalom Bartal, Roth [Yossi Roth], Tauber [Oscar Tauber] and other press photographers of the period.
Enclosed are thousands of negatives, most probably of the same events documented in the photographs.
Size and condition vary. Most photographs are approx. 20X25 cm, a number are smaller. Good overall condition.

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