1951 Elections – Photographs

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1951 Elections – Photographs

1. Election posters – separate billboards for each party
2. Election posters
3. President Chaim Weizmann casts his vote in elections for the 2nd Knesset, Rehovot
4. A billboard is set up in a strategic position
5. Ballot boxes are shipped to the Central Election Committee in advance of the elections
6. Chair of the Central Elections Committee with his administrative assistants. (l to r) Dr. Michael Cylan, Judge Olshan, Mr. Moshe Shilo & Mr. Baruch Rosenthal
7. Polling station equipment being packed
8. Ballots bearing party symbols are sorted and counted before being sent to polling stations
9. Extra staff taken on by min. of the interior to deal with the thousands of appeals submitted by persons not on the polling list
10. Counting the votes, starting at midnight on election day
11. Tel Aviv citizens take a keen interest in the election posters covering the town
12. The Weiss family, formerly of Hungary and now living in Eilat, cast their vote in the elections for the second Knesset
13. David Ben Gurion casting his vote during the elections for the second Knesset at a polling station in Tel Aviv
14. Menachem Begin casting his vote during the elections for the second Knesset at his polling station in Tel Aviv
15. Election committee members take a break on election day
16. Tel Aviv before the elections
17. Three Beduins wait their turn to vote in the elections for the second Knesset
18. A Beduin woman voting in the elections for the second Knesset
19. A Yemenite man votes for the first time in his life at Kissalon transit camp
20. A Yemenite woman casts her vote in the elections for the second Knesset
21. Teddy Brauner
22. Army reservists on duty cast their votes in the elections for the second Knesset

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1951 Elections – Photographs