Jewish Israel Tel Aviv Picture/ Photo Yitzhak Ben-Aharon. Ephraim Erde, 1937

Description

Photo (black & white) of Yitzhak Ben- Aharon,
Secretary of the Tel Aviv Workers' Council speaks.
photographer: Ephraim Erde
Size: 24* 30 cm
Year: 1937
Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (1906-2006)
was an Israeli left-wing politician
.
He was a Knesset member from the first to the fifth Knessets and in the seventh and eighth, and a former Minister of Transport and General secretary of the Histadrut. The philosopher Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon is his son. Ben-Aharon was born Yitzhak Nussenbaum (see Hebrew version of this page) in the Bukovina region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Romania). He attended high school in Chernivtsi and studied at the Advanced School for Political Science in Berlin
.
He became a leader in Hashomer Hatzair in Romania, and in 1928 he emigrated to Mandate Palestine. In 1933, he became a member of kibbutz Givat Haim and after the 1952 split in the Kibbutz Movement, he joined the Mapam-affiliated Givat Haim (Meuhad), where he remained a member for the rest of his life
.
From 1932–1938, he was Secretary of the Tel Aviv Workers' Council. In the summer of 1935, he served for a few months as the envoy for the Halutz organization in Nazi Germany until he was expelled by the Gestapo. From 1938–39, he was Secretary of Mapai
.
In 1940, he enlisted in the British army to fight against Nazi Germany in World War II, where he reached the rank of Major. He was captured in the Greek front in 1941, along with other soldiers from the Yishuv, until they were released in 1945.
Ephraim Erde (1905-1986)
An Israeli photographer, the pioneers of photography in Tel Aviv, the side Rudy Weissenstein and the successors of Avraham Soskin.
Ephraim Arda was born in a village in eastern Galicia (later on the border between Ukraine and Poland). In Hashomer Hatzair's training in Poland, he met a photographer in 1929, who taught him the basics of photography.
In 1933 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, first settling in Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz and from there he moved to Tel Aviv. In the first period, he photographed residents on the streets of Tel Aviv, then opened a studio called "Photo Eden" on Lilienblum Street, near Cinema Eden, and then, in the 1940s, opened "Photo Arda" at 55 corner of 1 Brenner Street (next to Whitman Ice Cream). A studio that also included a store for photography, and was a well-known Tel Aviv institution.
Many of the photographs were taken in the courtyard of the house, where there was a large mulberry tree that served as a background. Arda's photographs dealt with various and varied subjects: studio portraits, personalities and buildings, Eretz Israel and Tel Aviv, weddings, reproductions for painters, sports and dance, both in the private and institutional fields (for youth movements, sports associations and more).
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