0290.02.0484
A Letter from Elyas Kusa to Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 1959

Printed in Arabic, this document features a letter from Elyas Kusa to Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, serving as the President of Israel back in the day, sent on 3 October 1959, regarding congratulating him on the arrival of the Hebrew New Year, in addition to denouncing the actions done by Jamal ʿabden-Naṣer in the Suez Canal by banning the passage of the Israeli ships, describing it as a piracy act.  Kusa refers that Jamal ʿabden-Naṣer's statements that the war between Israel and the United Arab Republic is caused by the war of 1948 and the Israeli Invasion over Egypt in 1956.   

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October 3 1959

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Mansour, Johnny. "The Elias Koussa Collection". Interview with PMDA Researcher Lama Ghosheh. October 2018. The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive.

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0290.02.0484
A Letter from Elyas Kusa to Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 1959

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