Signed, Sealed, Delivered?

Israel Story's new series provides a fresh look at the nation's founding moral compass, Megillat Ha'Atzmaut – the Declaration of Independence – through the voices of its signatories and their descendants. Produced in partnership with The Times of Israel

Meir Argov (Courtesy of the Israeli National Photo Collection)

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Meir Argov

A WWII veteran and labor organizer who loved cantorial music and was Israel’s first chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

August 13, 2023

Yitzhak Meir Levin (National Photograph Collection)

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Yitzhak Meir Levin

Our series continues with the foremost Haredi rabbi to have signed the Declaration of Independence

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Moshe Kol

For nearly two decades Kol headed the Jewish Agency’s Youth Immigration Division that brought more than 100,000 unaccompanied minors from 85 different countries to Israel

Pinchas Rosen (Courtesy Israeli National Photo Collection)

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Pinchas Rosen

A lover of classical music, an enthusiastic chess player, an avid reader of Goethe, and Israel’s first Justice Minister

Daniel Auster (Willem van de Poll)

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Daniel Auster

The first Jew to be appointed Mayor of Jerusalem since Byzantine times

Israeli Declaration of Independence (GPO)

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Israel’s Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948 was not only the birth of a state — it was also the birth of Israeli radio.