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Eliyahu Brothers Postcards

Postcard publishing company based in Mandatory Palestine1

Eliyahu Brothers Postcards are series of Postcards, who published by the Eliyahu brothers, Matityahu and Yossef Eliyahu, from the early 1920s to 1939 in Mandatory Palestine. The Series includes hundreds of images; Most of the images are views of Israel and some others were the leaders of the Zionist movement.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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Photo: אין מידע, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Eliyahu Brothers Postcards are series of Postcards, who published by the Eliyahu brothers, Matityahu and Yossef Eliyahu, from the early 1920s to 1939 in Mandatory Palestine.2

The story

Matityahu and Yossef Eliyahu were born in Corfu to Malka and Abraham (Elia), active in the Zionist movement in Corfu. They arrived in 1914 to Ottoman Israel and worked in printing in Jaffa.

During World War I in 1917, they were deported from Tel Aviv with other citizens of the Enemy countries of the Ottoman Empire, especially Greece, of which they were born. They were persecuted and sent with hundreds of other Jewish refugees to Hama in Syria, and then to Istanbul.

After World War I, they returned to Mandatory Israel and set up a stationery store in Jaffa, and another on Nahalat Binyamin Street in Tel Aviv, later moving to Herzl Street.

Eliyahu brothers were importers of products from the Parker Pen Company, including ink, fountain pen types, and other accessories of stationery products. At the same time, they opened a publishing house printing postcards of Israel.

From Wikipedia’s article on Eliyahu Brothers Postcards, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

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