Israël - 10 lirot 5733/1973 zilver INDEPENDENCE SCROLL - KM

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KM# 71.2
kwaliteit: Proof
zilver 900
diameter: 37.0
gewicht: 26.0
muntmeesterteken: mem
randschrift: Independence Day 1973
Jeruzalem - 41.484

As part of the preparations for the establishment of the new State, the nation's leaders composed a Declaration of Independence. On Friday 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion read the Declaration during a special session of Mo'etzet Ha'Am (The People's Council) before leaders of the Jewish Community and the Zionist movement. The Independence Scroll itself was only completed about one month later, as designer Otto Wallish just managed to complete the bottom section in time for the signing ceremony. Altogether 37 persons signed the Declaration. Not all membership of the People's Council could attend, as those members who resided in besieged Jerusalem were cut off from the outside world and could not travel to Tel Aviv. After having read the Declaration of Independence (from handwritten notes), Ben-Gurion closed the special session with his famous words: "WE HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL, BEING THE STATE OF ISRAEL." The original scroll, which is in three parts bound together, is now kept in the country's National Archives. The Declaration of Independence reached the local press only on Sunday 16 May, as the ceremony was held late Friday afternoon, just before the onset of the Sabbath. Note the goof by the Palestine Post newspaper, reporting that "...the State of Israel was proclaimed on midnight of Friday...", some eight hours later than in reality and well into Shabbat!

The obverse of the 25th Anniversary of Independence coin shows in minute detail the last four lines of the Independence Scroll: "PLACING OUR TRUST IN THE 'ROCK OF ISRAEL' [The Lord], WE AFFIX OUR SIGNATURES TO THIS PROCLAMATION AT THIS SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE, ON THE SOIL OF THE HOMELAND, IN THE CITY OF TEL-AVIV, ON THIS SABBATH EVE, THE 5TH DAY OF IYAR, 5708 (14TH MAY,1948). Below follow the signatures of all 37 delegates present during the ceremony. Below the scroll appears Ben-Gurion's famous closing statement, which does not appear in the Independence Declaration, but is universally accepted as an integral verbal part thereof.