Ben-Gurion postcard from 1948 Independence Day adult for sale

An auction residence in Jerusalem will be offered a postcard created and sealed by David Ben-Gurion on a day that a State of Israel was declared: May 15, 1948.

Ben-Gurion sent a missive to his longtime crony and destiny MK Shlomo Lavi; a dual friends grew adult together in a same city in Poland.

“When me done aliyah to this land, we as Levkovich and me as Green, with a dwindle of labor in a hands, we found – malaria and crime – underneath a Ottoman Empire,” Ben-Gurion wrote to his friend. “Now, notwithstanding a fact that a bark of cannons has not ceased, and a sons are fighting on a frontlines, my heart is happy during a steer of this good advancement. The republic of Israel has arrived during a rise of their existence: a State of Israel has been born.”

Ben-Gurion sealed a note and antiquated it with a Hebrew date, a 6th of Iyar, 5708, a day a State of Israel was strictly declared.
The Kedem Auction House announced a find and sale of a postcard on Thursday, a day of Independence Day this year. The postcard will go adult for sale this Wednesday during a Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem. Bidding on a postcard began during $1,200, and as of Thursday afternoon stood during $6,000.

“This postcard is a really special find that encompasses a autarchic ancestral value,” pronounced Meron Eren, co-owner of Kedem Auction House. “Above all, it carries with it nostalgia for a early days of a country, sentiments of renewal, fad on a state in a creation as good as a enthusiasm and fun of a era that took zero for granted.”

The Kedem House is auctioning off some-more than 150 equipment on Wednesday, including a former pass of a Satmar Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum and a tefillin boxes that once belonged to a Chazon Ish.

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