Zadok Bassan - "Laying the cornerstone of the Etz Chaim neighborhood, 6th of Nisan 1929" - Rabbi Kook, 1929.

Zadok Bassan - "Laying the cornerstone of the Etz Chaim neighborhood, 6th of Nisan 1929" - Rabbi Kook, 1929.

Zadok Bassan - a photograph consisting of four views "Yeriyat Even HaPina to the Etz Haim neighborhood, 6th of Nisan 1929". Signed lower left with the seal: "photographer Zadok bassan Jerusalem".

Four photographs of views from the ceremony of laying the cornerstone for the Etz Chaim neighborhood that took place in the month of Nissan 1929. In the left photograph below, Rabbi Kook, who honored to laying the stone, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer (who was among the speakers at the event alongside Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld), HaRishon L'Zion And the first Sephardic rabbi of Israel - Rabbi Yaakov Meir, as well as the director of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva, in whose name the neighborhood was founded, Rabbi Yechiel Michal Tokchinsky, and other rabbis as they entered the compound of the place where the cornerstone was laid. In the photo below on the right can be seen Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer again.

An extensive coverage of the event was published in the "Dar Hayom" newspaper of Friday, Nissan 6 1929 under the heading "Details of the Great Celebration" Extensive coverage of the event was published. It says that more than ten thousand people participated in the celebration, the names of the various speakers and the entire event are mentioned. The newspaper there summarizes: "The ceremony went very well, except for a trivial incident from four uninvited young men who tried to cause a slight disturbance because they objected to the formality of the ceremony." see here

28x21 cm. Slight creases. Glued to a cardboard base. Slight crack at the top left. Good condition.