Rare 1948 interim period NAMED mail addressed TO besieged JERUSALEM, sent from TEL AVIV likely at the head post office as per the violet interim postmarks tying 10 mils interim stamp as franking for domestic letter. Owing to the siege conditions on Jerusalem mail to the city was held up at Tel Aviv and transported with one of the two convoys that carried mail to Jerusalem on 18 and 21 June; opened roughly at back. As the road conditions to the city were unsafe with the city at times cut off from the rest of the country (with battles waged within between neighborhoods), interim period mail addressed to Jerusalem is very rare. The addressee Ruth Lorch, may be the one commemorated by the Communications Corps (1932-1951) who at this time was a young girl, a member of the Girl Scouts, assisting with building fortifications at the entrance of the city; subsequently a member of the 'Gadna' youth battalion; drafted to army service in 1950 and died while on duty in 1951.


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