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Israel - First Settlers Year State Medal, 5723-1963 - Silver 935 , 115 g , 59 mm.
The year honoring the first settlers is officially known as: "Commemorating eighty years of the "BILU" arrival and the first settlements". True, Petah Tikvah was founded in 1878, but it was only in 1882 that the first organized group arrived dedicated to working the land. The Roumanian group established two settlements in the mountains, Rosh Pina and Zichron Yaakov. At about this time a party of youngsters arrived carrying with them the idea of working in communes. These were the BILU youth, who established Rishon L'Zion. In the by laws of Rosh Pina were formulated the foundations for cooperatives and mutual assistance groups. This was the year when "Illegals" arrived for the first time, some members of the Roumanian group made their way into the country by way of Egypt carrying Christian pilgrim passports.
Obverse: On the right the State emblem. In the centre an inscription in sunken letters: "Israel in homage to the First Ones". Half around the rim, letters in relief, the identical inscription in English.
Reverse: In the center, a farmer planting in swamp areas. To the right beneath the verse: "I will remember the convenant of their ancestors" (Leviticus 26:45) in Hebrew. Half around the rim, the verse in English.
The year honoring the first settlers is officially known as: "Commemorating eighty years of the "BILU" arrival and the first settlements". True, Petah Tikvah was founded in 1878, but it was only in 1882 that the first organized group arrived dedicated to working the land. The Roumanian group established two settlements in the mountains, Rosh Pina and Zichron Yaakov. At about this time a party of youngsters arrived carrying with them the idea of working in communes. These were the BILU youth, who established Rishon L'Zion. In the by laws of Rosh Pina were formulated the foundations for cooperatives and mutual assistance groups. This was the year when "Illegals" arrived for the first time, some members of the Roumanian group made their way into the country by way of Egypt carrying Christian pilgrim passports.
Obverse: On the right the State emblem. In the centre an inscription in sunken letters: "Israel in homage to the First Ones". Half around the rim, letters in relief, the identical inscription in English.
Reverse: In the center, a farmer planting in swamp areas. To the right beneath the verse: "I will remember the convenant of their ancestors" (Leviticus 26:45) in Hebrew. Half around the rim, the verse in English.