Samuel Crystal fonds

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Ken Crystal, son of Sam Crystal, donated his father’s photographs from a 1967 mission to Israel. Taken some six months after the Six-Day War, the photographs document some of the locations that were conquered by Israel during the war, including Jerusalem, Nablus, and the Golan Heights. The photographs also depict a number of well-known individuals, including former Toronto mayor Nathan Philips, the then Israeli prime minister Levi Eshkol, and the then Israeli president Zalman Shazar. All 149 of the photographs have been digitized and can be viewed