Sunday, June 03, 2012

Who Is This Guy?

My friend, Lenny Ben-David, has been posting Mandate-period (and earlier, during the Ottoman Empire occupation of Eretz-Yisrael) pictures.  Some, he has succeeded in identifying unknown persons or even correcting misidentified persons or locations.  I've attempted to assist occasionally.

Well, here's my query - who is the gentleman in this picture from the Matson Collection?



Here, a zoom view:


The year seems to be 1920, during the first organized political violence by Arabs in opposition to the British Balfour Declaration and San Remo Conference decision concerning a reconstituted Jewish national home.

Are they in a village or Jerusalem?

Is he British or a Jewish Zionist?

Who knows?

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Well, I found him in another picture, next to Jaffa Gate, marked by the blue arrow:






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