File 2003-061/006(6) - Israel : miscellaneous

1 folder of textual records

File consists of newspaper articles, booklets, notes for speeches, and correspondence regarding the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and British policy concerning Palestine, articles by Esther Breitstein (nee Vilenska) in "Morning freiheit" in 1948 about the relationship between Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, letters exchanged by Sam Lipshitz and Breitstein (including her observation that May, his daughter, "will be a good doctor as well as a committed revolutionary"), debates at the United Nations about the formation of Israel, results of Israel's second parliamentary election in 1951, Soviet concerns about the new Jewish state, issues facing the Jewish diaspora as discussed at the Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, a speech by the leader of the Israel Communist Party about the loss of political and economic independence if Israel is aligned with western countries, problems with the newspaper "Free Israel" published by the Israel Association for Popular Culture, the strengthening discord between religious groups and the government of Israel in 1958, the peace accord between Israel and Egypt in 1979, and the itinerary for the United Jewish Appeal Societies Mission in Israel in 1982.