Does anyone read Hebrew?

[French jurist]

I often buy antiques, weird things and such and recently bought a coin box (Industria Argentina) and I wonder if it's pre or post 1948. Funny mechanism btw to avoid that the coins can be taken out.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to decipher Hebrew, does anyone know?

Thanks

 

[HenryNisental]

I think it is a coin donation box of the Jewish organization Keren Kayemet Leisrael.
It was an old organization that colllected money in the early XX century in Europe to provide funds to purchase land in Palestine for the Jewish inmigrants.
They purchased land from Turkey, (at that time was the colonial power until 1918), and then from Arabs landlords until 1948, when the Jews fought and won their war of independence from British rule. You can see in the box the map of many settlements purchased with these funds. This also negates the Arabs claims that their land was "stolen" from them in Palestine.
I have seen them when I was a child. Then they were used to provide funds for the State of Israel, I think.

 

[French jurist]

Thanks Henry,

that's greatly appreciated!

Best regards

Antoine

 

[sivan]

Not sure when your particular box is from but they almost certainly still exist today. As the above poster mentioned they belong to the organisation called Keren Kayemet Leyisrael or in English the Jewish National Fund. They are used to collect money to plant trees in Israel.