Cast bronze plaque, with a relief portrait of David Ben-Gurion in profile. Signed: "With Appreciation, Ezra Balilius". On the right is a copy of Ben-Gurion's signature.
Plaque: 17.5X15 cm. Suspension loop on reverse.
Provenance: Willy Lindwer collection.

Medal awarded to Albert (Abraham) Cohen, the charity consultant of James (Jakob) Mayer de Rothschild, 1855.
Obverse: relief of the Ten Commandments, a menorah and different utensils, surrounded by the Hebrew inscription: "Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands" (Hebrew). Reverse: Italian dedication to Alberto Cohen, on charity works for the Jews, on behalf of the Italian Jewish community.
Diameter: 55 mm.

Miniature medal made by Rouchomovsky. Odessa, [early 20th century].
Obverse: farmers working in the field, above them an inscription reading: "Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you" (Hebrew). Beneath is the artist's signature, "Rouchomovsky Odessa" and the inscription: "I first have declared it to Zion" (Hebrew). On the margins are the verses: "Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not" (Hebrew) and "And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing" (Hebrew). Reverse: worshippers at the Western Wall, inside a Star of David-shaped frame and decorations in vegetal motifs. On the margins are the verses: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither" and "For thy servants hold her stones dear, and have pity on her dust" (Hebrew).
Diameter: 16 mm. Good condition.

Commemorative pin granted to the members of the Etzel (Irgun) and Lehi underground movements who were exiled to Africa, upon their release and return to Israel. [ca. 1948].
Brass inlaid with blue enamel. The recto is illustrated with an image of a guard tower behind a barbed-wire fence, surrounded by the Hebrew inscription "The Africa Exiles / 44-48".The verso is embossed with a Star of David and the number 215 (all the pins were individually numbered).
In 1944, the British Mandate authorities in Palestine deported several hundred members of the Etzel and Lehi underground movements to detention camps in Africa. At first, they were interned at a detention camp at Sembel, Eritrea, after which they were transferred to a camp in Carthago, Sudan, then back to Sembel, until finally reaching the detention camp in Gilgil in Kenya, where they were held until their release and return to the nascent State of Israel in July 1948.
Ca. 24X18 mm. Good-fair condition. Fractures and cracks to enamel. Old soldering repairs to clasp.
Included are two books by Yosef Vinitzky (Y. Netz), one of the exiles, reviewing the period of his exile in Africa: · “Two Hundred and Fifty-One (251), From the Diary of an Exile of Zion at the British Detention Camps in Africa.” . Tel Aviv: Yedidim, 1950. Hebrew. With a short dedication in the author's handwriting. · "From Imprisonment to Return (251 part 2: The Exile in Eritrea-Kenya), From the Diary of an Exile of Zion at the British Detention Camps in Africa." Tel Aviv: Yedidim, 1952. Hebrew.