Large photomontage photo - an evening Yeshiva for youth in the village of Malcha, early 1950s.
An interesting photograph consisting of four photographs: above left, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef the Younger (about 30 years old) visiting the yeshiva. below, photographs of the yeshiva rabbis and students - from Morocco, Kurdistan, and Tunisia. Extremely rare.
The Arab village of Al Malha was Arena of battles fighting in the War of Independence. until the declaration of the State of Israel, the village was a strategic point from which Arab forces sniped at Jerusalem. It was captured by the IDF on July 14, 1948 and its inhabitants fled. The area of the village and the surrounding lands were annexed to West Jerusalem, becoming the familiar 'Malcha' neighborhood, along with the lands of Ein Kerem, Lifta, Deir Yassin and other abandoned villages that were outside the city's jurisdiction during the British Mandate.
In the early 1950s, the abandoned houses of Malcha were inhabited by immigrants, mostly from Kurdistan, and a minority from Tunisia and Morocco, but the village was not yet municipally associated with Jerusalem, and was supposed to be an agricultural settlement, during this time, this photo was taken.
Size: 23x17 cm. Very good condition.
