Shurat HaMitnadvim – Movement against Corruption in Israel - Seven Booklets, Late 1950s

Shurat HaMitnadvim – Movement against Corruption in Israel - Seven Booklets, Late 1950s
Seven publications by and about Shurat HaMitnadvim, late 1950s. For a detailed list of the publications please see Hebrew description.
At first Shurat HaMitnadvim ("Line of Volunteers") was founded as a non-political charity based civic association, helping new immigrants and supporting social change, but soon focused on fighting corruption and nepotism, rampant in the Israeli political establishment.Its founders included Elyakim HaEtzni (later a settler activist and MK), Hanan Rapopport, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, future president Ephraim Katzir, future MK and minister Amnon Rubinstein, and poet Yitzhak Shalev (father of writers Meir Shalev and Zruya Shalev).
In 1955 the association published a booklet titled Sakana Orevet MiBifnim (Danger Lurks from Within), accusing David Ben-Gurion's son, Amos Ben-Gurion, who served as deputy police commissioner, of ordering to halt a criminal investigation involving his friend Shayke Yarkoni, husband of popular singer Yaffa Yarkoni. The accusation was that Yarkoni and his associates used Jewish Agency funds in a scam allowing them to pocket huge sums by inflating costs of tourism equipment.
Amos Ben-Gurion sued Shurat HaMitnadvim for libel; Shmuel Tamir, an attorney at the Kastner trial, represented the association. Police commissioner Yeheskel Sahar was proven to have given a false testimony, but still the court ruled in favor of Ben-Gurion, ordering the association to pay an unprecedented sum in reparations. This, in turn, led to the huge crises in the association and the halting of most its activities, while the appeal was being heard in the Supreme Court.The Supreme Court accepted most of the association's claims, and drastically cut the amount of reparations - ordering Ben-Gurion to return the sums already paid with interest. The Justices slammed Ben-Gurion and Sahar, as well as the judges of the District Court. Sahar was charged and found guilty for perjury.
Various conditions. General condition: good.