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Collection: ISRAEL BONDS, WESTERN DIVISION : Including a dinner honouring John Diefenbaker.

Physical Description: 4 textual records. - 5 photographs. - 2 sound elements.

Scope and Content: The fonds consists of 4 black paper scrapbooks (one oversized) of publicity from several Israel Bond campaigns. Prominently included is extensive detail about a dinner that Israel Bonds ran in honour of then former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in December 1967. The collection includes the script…

Collection: ISRAEL BONDS, WESTERN DIVISION : Including a dinner honouring John Diefenbaker.

Physical Description: 4 textual records. - 5 photographs. - 2 sound elements.

Scope and Content: The fonds consists of 4 black paper scrapbooks (one oversized) of publicity from several Israel Bond campaigns. Prominently included is extensive detail about a dinner that Israel Bonds ran in honour of then former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in December 1967. The collection includes the scripts of speeches given at the dinner written by Al Regenstrief; 5 black-and-white photos 8" by 10" of the main participants, correspondence with John Diefenbaker, various consuls and others; and a recording on 2 reel-to-reel tapes of the proceedings, made by the CBC, Dec. 4, 1967.

History / Biographical: Israel Bonds are securities issued by the State of Israel to help build the nation's infrastructure. David Ben-Gurion established the Israel Bonds program in 1951 as a means of providing Israel with urgently needed economic support. Israel was economically devastated by the War of Independence; immigrants who poured into the country from Europe and Arab nations were living in primitive shelters; food was rationed; and an economic infrastructure was practically non-existent. Rebuffed by Wall Street, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion established the Israel Bonds organization as a means of raising economic capital through the sale of State of Israel securities. (Administrative history from https://www.israelbonds.ca/who.asp)Al Regenstrief, now of Montreal, was the director of the Israeli Bond Campaign in Alberta and British Columbia in the 1960s.

Custodial History: The collection was donated by Al Regenstrief on April 6, 2007.

Notes: P07/10.The Dec. 1967 event depicted in the scrapbooks was the first public function at which John Diefenbaker spoke after being replaced as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. The collection relates to the themes of the Jewish community of Western Canada, Israel, Zionism, political involvement, and Canadian politicians and Israel in the 1960s.