Mint First Day Cover FDC signed by Eliyahu Sasson, Autograph

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Mint First Day Cover FDC signed by Eliyahu Sasson, Autograph.
Mr. Sasson signed this FDC together with 3 ambassadors from African countries: Congo, Ivory Coast and Ghana, at the Africa-Israel Friendship FDC - 1964 National Stamp Exhibition.
The FDC is included in a folder issued for the exhibition. Please see pictures.
Eliyahu Sasson was born in
Damascus
in Ottoman Syria. He studied at an Alliance School in his hometown and the
Université Saint-Joseph
in
Beirut
.
[1]
He became a member of the Arab National Movement,
[2]
and edited a Jewish-Arab newspaper named
al-Hayat
. He
immigrated
to Palestine in 1927 and worked as an electrician, journalist and lecturer on Middle East affairs.
He began working in the political department of the
Jewish Agency
, serving as head of the Arab department between 1933 and 1948. A member of the Jewish delegation to the United Nations between 1947 and 1948 and at the
ceasefire negotiations
in 1949, he worked as director of the Middle East department of the
Foreign Affairs Ministry
between 1948 and 1950, before heading an office in Paris for contacts with Arab nations. He is reported by
Benny Morris
to have been a member in 1948 of one of the government's unofficial
Transfer Committees
, set up to facilitate the removal of Arabs from their towns and villages.
[
citation needed
]
He also served as the Israeli envoy to Turkey (1950–1952), an envoy and ambassador to
Italy
(1953–1960) and ambassador to
Switzerland
(1960–1961).
In 1961, he returned to Israel and was appointed
Minister of Postal Services
by
David Ben-Gurion
. He was elected to the
Knesset
in the
1965 elections
, and retained his cabinet post until 2 January 1967, when he became
Minister of Police
. Although he was re-elected in 1969, he lost his ministerial post upon the formation of the new government. He lost his seat in the
1973 elections
.
Item in nice shape unless otherwise noted.
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