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[ISRAEL] BEN-GURION, DAVID. Typed letter signed as Prime Minister.
[N.p.:] 12 Tammuz 5721 [26 June 1961]. A two-page typed letter signed on two sheets of Ben Gurion's Prime Minister stationery, the text and signature in Hebrew. Framed. Usual folds, some handling creases, small stapler holes to upper corner, the full sheets visible in the frame but not examined out of the frame, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by David Schulson Autographs.
Here Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion comments on the writings of several political writers, noting that (in translation) "Michali's demand may be justified, but it implies that the government does not support literature and authors - this implication is incorrect ... I have appreciated literature and authors since my youth, and I know what an impact on my life was made by the first Hebrew story I read as a child - 'Ahavat Zion' [Love of Zion]." He continues with further comment on writers before offering the two "fateful problems facing our people," the first being the existential threat of security, and the second being the "problem of the character of our nation, which may also decide our destiny and future existence." He offers little on security here but continues on the character of the nation: "our existence depends on the cultural and moral character of the people; and not a minority but a majority, and primarily - of the younger generation, which will comprise the people in the future."
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