BEN GURION DAVID Typed Letter Signed

Sale 1912 - Lot 39

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EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN IN ISRAEL<\t>BEN GURION, DAVID. Typed Letter Signed, as Minister of Defense, to Eliyahu Elishar, in Hebrew, arguing that female immigrants from Islamic countries are entitled to equal rights in Israel. 1 page, single 8vo sheet; a bit toned, folds, punch holes in right margin.<\t>Kiriah, 1 July 1955

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" . . . the reversal experienced by Jewish mothers and daughters as they return to their homeland from Islamic countries, is deep-rooted and radical. The debasement of human dignity with which mothers, wives and daughters are treated in the backward countries, ceases as soon as the Jewish immigrant sets foot in their homeland. And the Jewish women of Yemen, Babylon, Persia and Morocco - like women from Poland, Germany and the United States - are free women and entitled to equal rights in every area, in the state of Israel . . ."<