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August 4, 04:03 PM GMT
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JERUSALEM
TWO LETTERS TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE JEWS OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM:
i) Yehudah, A.L., of the Hebrew Palestine Exploration Fund, letter signed, requesting additional security at the Western Wall to prevent the Arabs from continuing their work following a government decree, in Hebrew, 1 page, folio, headed stationery, 17 May 1920
ii) Pann, Abel, autograph letter signed, undertaking to employ Kurt Meier as a lithographer in the Bezalel University College of Art, in Hebrew, 1 page, 8vo, Jerusalem, 12 June 1924
The first of these letters refers to the first significant Jewish/Arab dispute over the Western Wall, when Jewish objections were made to repairs undertaken by the Arab authorities to the ancient structure.
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