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First High Commissioner of Palestine
SAMUEL, Sir Herbert (1870-1963). Samuel was appointed the First High Commissioner of Palestine. This appointment made him the first Jew to govern the land of Israel in 2,000 years since the Roman’s. Samuel had been raised in an Orthodox Jewish home. He served in different British posts and was the first unconverted Jew to serve in a cabinet post. It was on the basis of Samuel’s work that the Balfour Declaration was written. When he arrived in Palestine he was greeted with a seventeen-gun salute. His uncommon full signature “Herbert Samuel, on a slip, affixed to a larger slip. Fine for framing.................$95.00
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