Five paper items and booklets issued by banks and economic institutes in Palestine. Palestine, first half of 20th century.
In the collection: * Share certificate, Metropolin Bank Ltd, [ca. 1928]. Never used. * "A number of words to members of the Bank Lemelacha", a brochure about savings (Hebrew), [1925?]. * Annual balance sheet of "Bank Lemelacha", 1928. * Promotional leaflet for a deposit certificate of "Halva'a veChisachon", Jerusalem, [1928?]. * Booklet (in colorful printing) printed for the 100th anniversary of "Generally" insurance company, 1931. Drawings and charts in fine lithographic printing. Printed in Italy.
Enclosed: "Rishonim Lakri'a…rishonim legiyus", a booklet published by "Histadrut 'Maccabi LeEretz Israel, Machleket Hagiyus", 1941. On the back appears an advertisement for Anglo-Palestine bank.
Five paper items. Good overall condition.

Three share certificates. Palestine, 1937-1948.
1. Share certificate, Moriya Bank. Jerusalem. 1937.
35X30 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases. Folding marks. Vouchers were not detached.
2. Share certificate, Otzar HaIkarm LeMashkanta'ot. Tel-Aviv, 1945.
32.5X21.5 cm. Good condition. Filing holes. Open tears by the filing holes. Stains. Creases. Folding marks.
3. Share certificate, Kupat Milve VeHisachon Shitufit Ltd. Of Histadrut Nashim Ziyoniyot, WIZO. Tel-Aviv, 1948.
20X16 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases. Folding marks. Wear.

About 450 checks, letters, forms, account books and other paper items, documenting the activity of the "Klinger Bank" in Safed. Safed, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Tiberias and other places in Palestine, 1920s-40s. Hebrew and English.
The "Klinger Bank" was the second Jewish bank in Palestine. It was founded early in the 20th century by Yoel Barshad, Zvi Barzel and Eliyahu Klinger, and was one of the most important banks at the time. Among others, the bank granted loans to institutes and personalities of the Old Yishuv, issued bills when trade was prohibited during World War I, supported small banks and even survived a fire during the 1929 Riots. Late in the 1960s the bank was sold to "Bank Leumi".
This collection includes, among others:
* About 100 bank checks, printed, filled in by hand and signed with ink-stamps, issued by various banks in Palestine: "Barclays Bank", "Palestine Mercantile Bank Ltd.", "Ottoman Bank", "Palestine Kupat Am Bank", checks of "Klinger Bank" and more.
* About 350 documents, accounts, letters and forms for bank transfers, documenting the bank activities and its relations with other banks.
* Nine accounting and stock books of "The Petroleum Company (Egypt)" managed by Eliyahu Klinger, company's agent. The books contain dozens of entries (carbon-copy, from the years 1921-1925).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.

Approximately 160 broadsides, postcards, booklets, brochures, cards, pocket guidebooks and other paper items (mostly printed matter), pertaining to Zionism and Palestine. Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Berlin, Warsaw and other places (most items are from Palestine), late 19th century until the 1960s. Hebrew, English, German and other languages.
Among the items:
* Approximately 70 broadsides, most from the time of the British Mandate, by various organizations and entities: "Va'ad Poalot Jaffa"; "HaPoel HaTza'ir; the Chief Rabbinate; "Management of the Tel Aviv Great Synagogue"; "National Religious Union"; "National Front"; supplements to the Davar and Chadashot newspapers; and more.
* 11 postcards, including a postcard by the Poel Hatzair promoting Shekel payment for 1937, with photomontage by the photographer Moshe Vorobeichic (Raviv); six postcards with poems and musical notes from the series "Songs of the homeland, compiled by Menashe Rabinowitz"; etc.
* Two printed receipts for payment of the Shekel for 1921, by the Zionist Union in Poland. Printed by C. Goldberg, Warsaw. Designed by Peretz Willenberg (teacher and designer [1874-1947]).
* Palestine government (Eretz Yisrael), additional laws legislated according to Clause 20 of the Railroad Order (authorized by the High Commissioner). Compilation of regulations on the subject of transport, printed in 1923 on behalf of the High Commissioner Herbert Samuel.
* Bulei HaGolah ("Stamps of the Diaspora") booklet, published by the JNF. Consists of 20 postage stamps with illustrations of Jews and Jewish sites, by Efraim Moshe Lilien, Hermann Struck, Joseph Budko and others. Presumably, the booklet was distributed to students in Palestine during WWII. On its back are explanations for children and the inscription "All revenue from the sale of these stamps is dedicated to redeeming land for the children of Jewish survivors". The name of the owner of the notebook and his school were added in pencil.
* Four printed certificates, filled in by hand and stamped, issued for the Jewish woman Dora Siew after the Holocaust: A membership notebook of the Jewish Students' Union in Munich; membership card of the Confederation of General Zionists in Germany; Authorization by the Jewish Agency, Immigrant office; Identity card of the SWRJ (Jewish Refugees Welfare Society).
* Certificate of participation in the ceremony of bringing Jabotinsky's remains to Israel, bearing the signatures of Menachem Begin, Aharon Proops and Yosef Klarman, issued in 1964.
* More items.
Size and condition vary. Overall fair-good condition.