A rare issue of “The Voice Of Freedom” was published on July  4th, 1948.

Only in 1967 will it come back and control the city again. Very historical.

עיתון מעריב נדיר ממלחמת הקוממיות העצמאות 1948

קרבות בעיר העתיקה ירושלים

The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal developed by the United Nations, which recommended a partition with Economic Union of Mandatory Palestine to follow the termination of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan as Resolution 181. The resolution recommended the creation of an independent Jewish State. The Partition Plan, a four-part document attached to the resolution, provided for the termination of the Mandate and the progressive withdrawal of British armed forces.

The Newspaper is framed and ready to hang

The Jerusalem Post

An English language daily established in Jerusalem in 1932 as part of a Zionist-Jewish initiative. In 1950 its name was changed to The Jerusalem Post and it continues to be published under that name to this day. The newspaper’s intended audience was English readers in Palestine and nearby regions — British Mandate officials, local Jews and Arabs, Jewish readers abroad, tourists, and Christian pilgrims. Zionist institutions considered the newspaper one of the most effective means of exerting influence on the British authorities. The Post’s first issue had a 1,200-copy run, but during its first year it achieved a daily circulation of close to 4,000 copies. Its circulation continued to grow, reaching a peak of 50,000 in 1944. On February 1948 the building housing the Post’s editorial offices in Jerusalem was bombed.

The Palestine Post provides a glimpse into some of the central events of the 20th century, including World War II, the Holocaust, and the development of the post-war world order. The newspaper is a rich source of information on Palestine during the British Mandate, the Zionist-Palestinian conflict, the history of the Yishuv (Jewish settlement in Palestine), the creation of the State of Israel, and the 1948 War of Independence. At the same time, the newspaper includes a wealth of information on Jewish communities throughout the world.

Yom Hamedina Newspaper 1948
The people declare the State of Israel

On November 29, 1947, the United Nations Assembly passed a resolution requiring the establishment of the State of Israel in the Land of Israel. And by virtue of our natural and historical right we declare the establishment of the State of Israel

Extremely rare “Yom Hamedina” (The Day of The State) newspaper. A celebratory newspaper produced in cooperation with all the newspaper systems in Israel and published on behalf of Ben-Gurion order as a one-time event on the declaration day of the state, 5 Iyar, 5708 (Jewish Calendar), May 14, 1948, at four o’clock in the afternoon. The title of the issue indicates the date and time and next to it the statement “Last day for foreign rule”.

The newspaper contains only two pages. The title page opens with the headline “The People Proclaim the State of Israel” and below is a detailed version of the Declaration of Independence. On the second page, announcements and updates about the IDF occupations, the fall of Gush Etzion, threats of invasion, and more.

The ceremony announcing the establishment of the State of Israel took place at Beit Dizengoff at 16 Sderot Rothschild in Tel Aviv. About eight hours before the end of the British mandate and the departure of the last British soldiers from the country. the Chairman of the People’s Administration David Ben-Gurion announced the establishment of the state, and those present at the ceremony signed the Declaration of Independence.

On the Cover: Israeli Soldier – Yosi Ben-Hanan, lieutenant serving as operational officer 7th Armored Brigade (now retired General).

Rare issue of Hamashkif (The Observer)  published right after the declaration of Independence 1948

Framed ready to hung on the wall

Great Zionist Present

HaMashkif (Hebrew: המשקיף‎, lit. The Observer) was a Hebrew language daily newspaper in Mandatory Palestine. Published between 1938 and 1948, it was owned by Hatzohar, the Revisionist party.

The newspaper was established in 1938 in Tel Aviv, succeeding the Revisionist journals Hazit HaAm and HaYarden.[1] From 1940 until the paper’s closure in 1948, it was edited by Izik Ramba. It closed in 1948 following Israeli independence and the dissolution of Hatzohar, and was replaced by Herut, the journal of the new Revisionist Herut party.

Contributors included Avraham Shekhterman, who edited its political section and later served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal and Likud.[2]