"Name Change Certificate" - An official certificate to change the family name from Abraham Mordechai Rosenson to "Raziel". Hebrew, Arabic and English. The certificate details that henceforth his name will be "Mordechai Raziel", and also includes the names of his wife Bluma, sons David, Esther and Penina with their new family name of "Raziel". Tel Aviv, March 28, 1928. Official ink stamps of the MAGISTRATE'S COURT in Tel Aviv.
Mordechai Raziel the father of future Knesset member Esther Raziel Naor, and of David Raziel - "Aluf Ben-Anat", one of the founders and fourth commander of the Irgun and Betar commissioner in British Mandate Palestine who was killed in Iraq on a British military mission. Mordechai Raziel immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1914 after receiving an invitation to teach at the "Tachkemoni" school in Tel Aviv. With the outbreak of World War I, the family was deported to Egypt by the Ottomans along with all Jews in the land who were Russian subjects, from there returning to Russia and back to the Eretz Israel in 1923.
43x20 cm. Fold marks. Good condition.
