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Founder and President, Women’s International
Zionist Organization
SIEFF, Rebecca (1890-1966). Sister of Sir Simon Marks, the head of Marks & Spencer and founder of the Weizmann Institute. She married Israel Moses Sieff, a British Zionist and collaborator of Weizmann, Secretary of the Zionist Institute at Rehovot (1934). She was the founder and president of the Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO). First Day Cover commemorating the 12th WIZO World Conference. Cachet at the left of the cover and affixed to the upper right is an Israeli postage stamp postmarked Jerusalem, Sept. 5, 1951. Choice and rare double signature of Rebecca Sieff in English & Hebrew. Together with an invitation to a reception of WIZO in honor of President Sieff, held April 27, 1924...........SOLD
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