Poster of Mapai Party, 1959
IN PICTURES: The election ads of Israel's yesteryears
Election campaign advertisements from country's early years show that issues such as high costs of living, housing shortage were just as relevant for voters then as now.
Campaign poster of Mapai ("Workers' Party of the Land of Israel") against luxury homes, 1951 (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
General Zionists pledge fight for economic equality, 1959 (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
Mapai campaign poster, 1951 (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
Poster by Herut party with portrait of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, 1951 (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
Mapai poster: The worker will vote 'Aleph' (party's election sign) (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
David Ben-Gurion in Herut party posters, 1959. "Say no to his trickery" (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
Poster by Mapam ("United Workers Party"), 1959 (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
Poster by the Worldwide Sephardic Association of Torah Guardians (later known as Shas), 1959 (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
Poster by WIZO ("Women's International Zionist Organization") when party was established and ran for Knesset in Israel's first elections in 1949 (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
Poster by Rafi ("Israeli Workers List") in 1965 (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
Likud poster, 1984: Ma'arach and Sarid want to put little Morris back in the shelter (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
Kach poster, 1992: Kahane is returning to the Knesset (Photo: National Library of Israel Collection)
