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May. 27, 2021
Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit asked the Jerusalem District Court Wednesday to block the sale of a letter written by Joseph Trumpeldor, calling it an “asset of a public-national character” and of “historical and national importance of the first order.”
The letter, in Hebrew, was written in 1915, five years before Trumpeldor’s death in the Battle of Tel Hai. Trumpeldor is regarded as one of the greatest heroes of the Zionist movement. The letter was sent to the father of Benjamin Wertheimer, a soldier who served in the British army’s Zion Mule Corps under Trumpeldor in World War I and died at the Battle of Gallipoli.