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Exhibition: A thriving community

Letter from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to the committee for naming Negev sites, insisting place names be taken from Hebrew historical sources rather than translations of Arabic names

Letter to Prime Minister Golda Meir from a group of families from Kiryat Malahi requesting support for a new settlement in Dahab, in the Sinai

Letter from settler movement leader R. Moshe Levinger, 10 May 1973, requesting that army buildings in the vicinity of Hebron be converted to an absorption center for new immigrants

Handwritten note from MK Ariel Sharon suggesting a meeting between representatives of 75 families wanting to settle in Ma’ale Edumim and Yisrael Galili, the minister responsible for settlement

Letter from Dr. Chaim Sheba, Director-General of the Ministry of Health warning that the plan to drain Lake Hula might hamper efforts to wipe out malaria in Israel

Documentary film about draining Lake Hula

Documentary short film about one of the dozens of settlements established by Nahal (Fighting Pioneer Youth), in the Jordan Valley

Page from notebook of Finance Minister Pinchas Sapir with notations in preparation for an emergency fund-raising mission to the US in the wake of the Yom Kippur War

A letter to Eliashib

Ration book including a provision for meat, a rarely available item, 1951, issued to Izhak Ben-Zvi during the Tzena (austerity) period, when many products were strictly rationed

Recorded list of food ration distribution during the siege of Jerusalem

Propaganda declaring war on the black market that developed in response to the austerity period rationing system

Request for a state vehicle for President Izhak Ben-Zvi as part of the process of formalizing diplomatic and administrative procedure

Car of President Izhak Ben-Zvi, leading his entourage, on the day he was sworn in as Israel’s second president

Draft of a document written in preparation for a government decision to abolish currency control

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