Letter signed by Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Meir to Rabbi Aharon Weinstein of Tel Aviv, regarding saving children from Europe and establishing an absorption center for them in Israel.
Background: During the years of the Holocaust, several rescue attempts were made, in which children were taken out of the European death fields and brought to the Land of Israel. A problem arose that most of the aliya activists were secular residents of the country and they also sent ultra-Orthodox children to kibbutzim and secular absorption centers run by non-religious parties. Against the background of these actions, the Tehran children affair exploded, which shook the settlement for a long time, and led to the establishment of the "Mifal for the Children of Israel" which is the subject of this letter.
In the letter, Rav Levin writes: “Saving Jewish children, survivors of the sword, still shaded from fire, we must expand and increase the activity of the Mifal for the Children of Israel in order to establish absorption centers for hundreds and thousands of Jewish children, to educate them in Torah and mitzvot…I thank the recipient greatly if he would be willing to sign on the attached pronouncement as soon as possible”.
14x22cm. Holes, tears, stains, fair condition.
Rabbi Yitzhak (Iche) Meir Levin (1893-1971) was the son of Rabbi Chanoch Henich Levin, Rabbi of Bendin, and son-in-law of the Imrei Emet of Gur. He was his father-in-law’s right-hand man in general for matters in Poland and Israel and served in the Polish Sejm, and then was a leader of Agudas Yisrael. Many Haredi public enterprises were named after him when the State of Israel was established, and he led the Haredi ship through the declaration of the independence and regarding the relationship between the Haredi population and the nascent State of Israel.
