Israel: lot of 13 first flight and special flight covers, 1956-1973, including the Arkia flight...

Lot of 13 flight covers, most of them registered and sent by air mail, with Israeli stamps:

1. Sabena special flight Hannover-Brussels-Lod, 28.4.1956, with a pair of 60 prutot stamps;

2. Sabena first postal helicopter flight Lod-Brussels-Duisburg, 7.5.1956, with the Parachutists stamp;

3. special flight by Arkia aircraft 4XADA over the Sinai Peninsula, Lod-Sharm el Sheikh-El Tor-Ras Abu Rudis (Abu Zanima), 20.11.1956, with a 'first landing in the petrol town' cachet;

4. the Jubilee World Scout Jamboree, England 1957, registered, to the Jamboree post office;

5-6. El Al Britannia inaugural flight to Paris, 22.12.1957, two covers, one registered with a Paris arrival postmark;

7. flight LY 211 Lod-New York on the day of issue of the ten years of civil aviation stamp, 22.7.1959, registered, with a New York arrival postmark;

8. Air France Caravelle first flight Lod-Paris, 31.8.1959, registered, with a Paris arrival postmark;

9. B.O.A.C. first flight Lod-London, 3.11.1959, registered express, with Liverpool and return to sender markings;

10. special flight Lod-Philadelphia on the day of issue of the United Jewish Appeal stamp, 26.12.1962, registered, with a photograph of immigrants and a verse from Isaiah;

11. the goodwill flight Bethlehem-Vatican City, 'Praying for Peace', with the portrait of Pope Paul VI, 10.7.1967, registered in Bethlehem, with a RETOUR handstamp;

12. Arkia first flight Mahanaim (Rosh Pinna)-Elat over Jerusalem, 23.7.1967, registered in Rosh Pinna;

13. the first Red Cross direct flight by Swiss Balair from Cairo to Lod airport with the Israeli prisoners of war from Egypt, 15.11.1973, with the Magen David Adom stamp with tab.

Some covers bear arrival postmarks on the back.

Condition: exactly as photographed.

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