Hanukkah torch race in memory of the Maccabees, which started from the Maccabee cemeteries and from there reached the rest of the country. The idea to hold the race was influenced by the first torch race, held at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, but also by a description in the Mishnah about how messages were passed from settlement to settlement by lighting torches in ancient times in the Land of Israel.

The torch race expressed the values ​​advocated by the ‘Young Maccabi’ movement: love of country, existence of the people in their country, freedom, independence, and devotion to the cause. At that time it was a complex operation because the place where the torch was lit and the start of the race route were located near Arab settlements. The holding of the race despite the danger emphasized its symbolism, and the members of the ‘Young Maccabi’ insisted on holding it despite everything. This is how the newspaper ‘Davar’ described the course of the race, held on Friday (19.12.44): “At sunrise, they reached the Hasmonean tombs. After a short ceremony, a torch was lit that was carried by messengers to Tel Aviv… The desolate places were accepted by the “Maccabi” members who are busy teaching physical culture in the army divisions: Feizner, Al. Aterman, Miron Abramson, A. Kuritsky; And in the towns of the south, the members of the associations ran from Rehovot, Rishon, and Nes-Ziona… In S.A. over a hundred runners participated in the race. At four o’clock in the afternoon, the journey reached Tel Aviv and many gathered to see the spectacle. The runners, with the torch in their hands, passed through the main streets until they reached the Maccabi House on Maccabim Street.”

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Caricature Poster ‘Masquerade Ball of the Ministers of the Government’ propaganda poster created by the opposition and the Revisionists to criticize the first government of Israel in 1948

נשף המסכות של שרי הממשלה

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“Winter has come early, meanwhile our soldiers are suffering

It is our duty to come to their aid. We will not lie quietly in our homes, and thousands of our children and brothers are suffering from a cold!

we ask every man and woman to immediately pack a package – a blanket and a sweater and bring it to the nearest school”

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“The Morning” newspaper was founded on the initiative of the “Civil Circles” activists in the settlement – urbanites, bourgeois, and peasants who mostly belonged to the middle class, headed by Israel Rokah and Meir Dizengoff. As a counterweight to the leading daily newspaper in the settlement, “Davar” of the General Histadrut of the Workers in the Land of Israel, and the “Haaretz” newspaper, which was also identified with the “Civil Circles”, but was considered moderate and liberal, while “Habokar” sought to promote a center-right view. For the establishment of the newspaper, donations were collected from a number of capitalists, including Sheftel Mirenburg from the owner of Agrobank, the industrialist Yitzhak Lichtenstein, the contractor David Ilgovski and others

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Plaque brass was made in honor of the establishment of the State of Israel
The plaque was awarded by the Israeli delegation in New York as a gift to American Jews who helped Israel in the 1948 War of Independence.
The plaque is made in 2 languages, Hebrew and English and is in the shape of Israel’s Declaration of Independence
Signed on the bottom right of the manufacturer’s name

Designed by the artist Sol Nodel. The declaration is surrounded by illustrated frame, depicting an Israeli soldier, an angel and the city of Tel Aviv. At the top of the plaque is the portrait of Theodor Herzl,

Framed

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