DESCRIPOTION : Here for sale is an EXCELLENT Zionist memmoraboilia
collectible find. It an EXTREMELY RARE , over SIXTY YEARS OLD Eretz
ISRAEL - PALESTINE ca late 1940's JNF - KKL charity - Donation-
Tzedaka box for LAND redemption in Eretz Israel . The BOX was manufactured and
was in use in ENGLAND - GREAT BRITAIN before the establishment of the
INDEPENDENT STATE of ISRAEL and before its 1948 WAR of INDEPENDENCE . ( AQABA
is indicated where ELATH was later on indicated in the independent ISRAEL STATE
period ) . ( Reference - Box No. 26-27 page No. 7 in the KKL
Blue Box catalogue - Also "English box with long map" in the advanced "Blue Box" catalogue - Please watch scan hereunder for reference ). With a
slot and a round hole for rolled money bills on its upper face and a trap door
on its bottom face . A RARE Zionist collectible BEAUTY. No key to the trap door . Unusual
size ( Width ) : 5" x 4" x 2.25 " . Very good condition. The surface is in very good
shape, Firm, Vivid and glossy . Only very minor dents or scratches . No key. ( Pls watch the scan for images - The box on sale is in very similar the scanned one !!! ) . Will be
shipped in a special rigid protective package .
An important note : The box on sale is not the scanned one , The box on sale is very similar to the scanned one !!!
AUTHENTICITY
: This is an ORIGINAL vintage 1940's Eretz Israel Palestine BOX . NOT a recent immitation , It holds a life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and
ORIGINALITY.
PAYMENTS : Payment
method accepted : Paypal & All credit cards.
SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered
airmail is $ 29 . Will be shipped in a special rigid protective box. Handling around 5-10 days after payment.
The Blue
Box For dozens of years, the Blue Box served as a
fund raiser in every Diaspora home and every Jewish institution in Israel and
abroad: A cherished, popular means to realize the Zionist vision of
establishing a state for the Jewish people. Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) was established
on December 29, 1901 (9 Tevet 5562) at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel. To
raise funds for it, Haim Kleinman, a bank clerk from Nadvorna, Galicia, soon
placed a box in his office and sent off a letter to Die Welt, the Zionist
newspaper in Vienna, notifying it accordingly:
"In keeping with the saying, 'bit and bitty fill the kitty' and
following the Congress resolution on KKL's founding, I put together an 'Erez
Israel box', stuck the words 'National Fund' on it and placed it in a prominent
spot in my office. The results, given the extent of the experiment so far, have
been astonishing. I suggest that like-minded people, and particularly all
Zionist officials, collect contributions to KKL in this way." The Blue Box: More Than a
Fundraising Device The funds raised through the Blue Box (the
"pushke," as it was widely known) were an instrument to redeeming the
land in Eretz Israel on which the Jewish home was to arise. But the Blue Box
was more than just a fundraising device. From the beginning, it was an
important educational vehicle spreading the Zionist word and forging the bond
between the Jewish People and their ancient homeland. The Blue Box has changed
form many times over the years, and often wasn't even blue. It is a symbol. A
symbol of KKL-JNF and its efforts to develop the land of Israel, plant forests,
create parks, prepare soil for agriculture and settlement, carve out new roads
and build water reservoirs – A symbol of connectedness with the land. For many
people, KKL-JNF's Blue Box is inseparable from their childhood memories. Blue
Boxes were placed in every classroom, into which every Friday small coins were
dropped. For several decades the Blue Box raised funds for environmental goals,
though over time its status whittled away until it disappeared from the Israeli
scene. The Blue Box was reinstated after the Second Lebanon War. Giant Blue
Boxes designed by the finest Israeli artists were exhibited on Tel Aviv's
Rothschild Boulevard where the public was invited to contribute to
rehabilitating Israel's northern forests which had been destroyed in the war.
Isrotel Hotels also took part in the effort with a large donation and awarded a
tree planting certificate to every guest in each of its hotels. The blue charity
collection boxes have been distributed by the JNF almost from its beginning.
Once found in many Jewish homes, the boxes became one of the most familiar
symbols of Zionism. A children's song about the boxes, written by Dr. Yehoshua
Frizman, Headmaster of the Real Gymnasium for Girls in Kovno, ran The box was invented when a bank clerk named
Haim Kleinman in Nadvorna, Galicia placed a blue box labeled "Keren
Le'umit" in his office, and suggested that similar boxes be distributed by
the Fund. The first mass-produced boxes were distributed in 1904. Kleinman
visited Mandate Palestine in the 1930s and planned to make aliyah, but perished
in the Holocaust. Menahem Ussishkin wrote that "The coin the child
contributes or collects for the redemption of the land is not important in
itself; it is not the child that gives to the Keren Kayemeth, but rather the
Fund that gives to the child, a foothold and lofty ideal for all the days of
his life."The boxes could take a variety of shapes and sizes. Some were
paper made to fold flat like envelopes and able to contain only a small number
of coins, some early American boxes were cylindrical, some German boxes were
made of tin stamped into the shape of bound books. Israel issued postage stamps
bearing the image of the blue box in 1983, 1991, and 1993 for the JNF's 90th
anniversary.The Jewish
National Fund (Hebrew: קרן קימת לישראל,
Keren Kayemet LeYisrael) (abbreviated as JNF, and sometimes KKL) was
founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine (later British
Mandate for Palestine, and subsequently Israel and the Palestinian territories)
for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a quasi-governmental, non-profit
organization. By 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel.Since its
inception, the JNF has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. It has also
built 180 dams and reservoirs, developed 250,000 acres (1,000 km)
of land and established more than 1,000 parks. Israel officially the State of Israel
(Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל,
Medīnat Yisrā'el, Arabic: دولة إِسرائيل is a parliamentary democracy in the Middle
East, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon
in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east,
Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea
to the south, and it contains geographically diverse features within its
relatively small area. In its Basic Laws Israel defines itself as a Jewish and
Democratic State; it is the world's only Jewish-majority state.On 29 November
1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption and
implementation of the partition plan of Mandatory Palestine. On 14 May 1948,
David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and
president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the establishment
of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel," a
state independent upon the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, 15
May 1948.Neighboring Arab armies invaded Palestine on the next day and fought
the Israeli forces. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab
states, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula
(between 1967 and 1982), Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. It annexed portions
of these territories, including East Jerusalem, but the border with the West
Bank is disputed. Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but
efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have so far not resulted in
peace. Israel's financial center is Tel Aviv, while Jerusalem is the country's
most populous city and its capital (although not recognized internationally as
such). The population of Israel, as defined by the Israel Central Bureau of
Statistics, was estimated in 2013 to be 8,002,300 people, of whom
6,030,100 are Jewish. Arabs form the country's second-largest ethnic group with
1,653,900 people (including Druze and Bedouins). The great majority of Israeli
Arabs are settled-Muslims, with smaller but significant numbers of semi-settled
Negev Bedouins and Christians. Other minorities include various ethnic and
ethno-religious denominations such as Druze, Maronites, Samaritans, Black
Hebrew Israelites, Armenians, Circassians and others. Israel is a
representative democracy with a parliamentary system, proportional
representation and universal suffrage. The Prime Minister serves as head of
government and the Knesset serves as Israel's unicameral legislative body.
Israel has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. It is a developed
country, an OECD member, and its economy, based on the nominal gross domestic
product, was the 43rd-largest in the world in 2012. Israel has the highest
standard of living in the Middle East and the third highest in Asia. ebay765a