Eight photographs depicting life in Palestine during the British Mandate and the early years of the State of Israel [Tel Aviv and various other places]. Photographs show: a traffic policeman in Magen David square in Tel Aviv; two boys next to a newsstand during the British Mandate era (two copies); façade of a Bauhaus style office building; tennis court in a newly built neighborhood, with unpaved roads and buildings under construction; and more. Four of the photographs are stamped on verso with the photographers' stamp – "Rudolf Jonas, Jerusalem". Rudolf Jonas (1898-1972) studied law in Berlin and Marburg, where he became acquainted with the Zionist Movement, and under its influence visited Palestine in the middle of the 1920s, documenting it with his camera. In 1933, he immigrated to Palestine, settling in Jerusalem, where he worked as an amateur photographer on behalf of the Keren HaYesod. After the War of Independence, he moved to Haifa, there, he continued working as a photographer. Approx. 13X18 cm. Some photographs printed on thick paper. Good condition. Minor creases to margins. Minor stains (mostly on verso). Handwritten notations on verso of one photograph.