Object ID
2021.1.56
Object Name
Envelope
Date
5-16-1948
Files
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Description
Envelope with copies of the Balfour declaration and UN decision to establish Israel on front.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
First day cover commemorating opening of the first post office in Tel Avi, May 16, 1948 with new Doar Ivri stamp of the State of Israel cancelled in Tel Aviv 5-16-1948. Cover contains image of Balfour Declaration to Lord Rothschild from November 1917, and the list of the 33 countries who voted in favor of the proposal in the United Nations General Assembly to establish a Jewish State in Palestine on November 29, 1947. An image in red of Theodor Herzl, father of modern Zionism as a political movement, and supporter of immigration to Palestine and the formation of a Jewish state.
Dimensions
6 x 5"
Keywords
Tel Aviv, Doar Ivri, Balfour Declaration, Lord Rothschild
Subcollection
Label, Philatelic
Recommended Citation
"First Day Cover from Tel Aviv" (1948). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2021.1.56.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1758