Ben-Gurion (David, first Prime Minister of Israel, 1886-1973) Typed Letter signed to Moshe Sar-Shalom, in Hebrew, 1p. & envelope, 270 x 220mm., Ministry of Defense headed paper, Jerusalem, 22nd May 1949, thanking a soldier wounded in the 1948 War of Independence for giving, "more than most soldiers - a part of your own body", and noting that it is the responsibility of the government to ensure work training, housing etc. to such wounded soldiers, folds, slightly browned, framed and glazed.