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This is an original signed letter by Moshe Sharett, former Prime-Minister of Israel from 1931. At that time he was serving as the Secretary of the Jewish Agency’s political department. The letter was sent to the Israeli workers federation and is dealing with a contribution the Jewish Agency is plannig to give.

Moshe Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954–55), serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion’s two terms. In 1922 he went to the London School of Economics, and while there he actively edited the Workers of Zion. He then worked on the Davar newspaper from 1925 until 1931. In 1931, after returning to Israel, he became the secretary of the Jewish Agency’s political department. After the assassination of Haim Arlosoroff in 1933 he became its head, and he held that position until the formation of Israel in 1948.