A historical album with 42 photographs documenting the arrival of the Irgun commander David Raziel's coffin to Eretz Israel. The photographs are arranged in chronological order from the humble ceremony in Cyprus to the burial on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. March 1961.
The photographs accompany all stages of David Raziel's bones raising, beginning with the humble ceremony in Cyprus and lifting Naor's body on a truck, receiving the coffin at Sde Dov in Tel Aviv, the eulogy ceremony at Jabotinsky Institute, in Tel Aviv streets, in Jerusalem streets, and the burial ceremony on Mount Herzl. Among the photographed seen Menachem Begin near the family, Rabbi Aryeh Levin and many others. [Each step starts with stencil printing on a piece of paper pasted to the album page].
At the beginning of the album, a dedication 'to Shoshana' on an official paper of the Jabotinsky Institute: "With your perseverance came to rest on Mount Herzl." And three signed c. Stein, Benzion, and Y. Ben-Ami.
David Raziel [1910-1941] "Gen. Ben Anat", one of the founders of the Irgun and his fourth commander and Betar Commissioner in Israel. Killed in Iraq on a British military mission.
At his death, Raziel was buried by the British in Iraq, in a military cemetery. His family and the Foreign Ministry made great efforts to bring his coffin to Israel's grave, but it was not until 1955 that the Iraqi government agreed to allow the British to remove the coffin from their own country, provided it was not brought to Israel for burial but in Cyprus, which was then a British colony. Eliezer Merom, who was then the senior Israeli representative in Cyprus, worked to regulate the issue. In September 1960, shortly after Cyprus gained independence, Knesset Member Menachem Begin approached the President of the New Republic, Archbishop Macarius III, allow the closet to be transferred to the State of Israel. The request was answered in the affirmative and on March 16, 1961, David Raziel held a military funeral with mass participation. His coffin was buried in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
Most photos are 13x9 cm. Very good condition.
