1967 UJA Mission

Physical Description: 149 photographs : b&w and col. ; 18 x 13 cm or smaller

Scope and Content: In December 1967, members of Toronto's UJA Leadership Fact-Finding Commission travelled to Israel to participate in a twelve-day fact-finding mission to study the country's health and welfare needs. The following individuals were members of the commission: Sam Crystal, Dr. Hart Levin, J. Irving Zucker, Morris Leibtag, Dr. Leonard Goldberg, Rabbi Albert Pappenheim, Phillip G. Givens, J. C. Oelbaum, Jack Israeli, Harold Hertzman, Dr. George Liban, Samuel Gotfrid, Dr. Wilfred Rovan, and David Marks.; Series comprises 149 photographs taken on the mission described above. Locations documented include the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, Nablus, and Safed. Individuals documented include David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel; Levi Eshkol, the then prime minister of Israel; Philip Givens, the former mayor of Toronto; and Zalman Shazar, the then president of Israel. According to the donor, the photographs were taken by Sam Crysal; however, several photographs have a photographer's stamp on verso which credit Zev Radovan of Jerusalem as the photographer.

Related Material: Related groups of records of records in different fonds external to the unit being described: Accession 2012-10-5 contains two photographs of Toronto's UJA Leadership Fact-Finding Commission, of which Sam Crystal was a member.

Arrangement: The photographer's original arrangement, if it existed, has not survived. The current numbering reflects the order in which the photographs were scanned.