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August 6, 2019

The Forgotten Man Who Wrote the First Draft of Israel’s Declaration of Independence

And the recent dispute over who owns that draft.

In May of this year the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the first draft of Israel’s declaration of independence belonged to the nation and not to the family of the man who wrote it. (The family was trying to sell the draft, having fallen on hard times.) That would perhaps seem obvious, but less obvious—indeed, mostly forgotten—is the story of that man, Mordechai Beham, and his work.

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