The only autographed draft of the Balfour Declaration known to exist will be auctioned. The document, drafted in 1917, called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Sotheby’s will auction it in New York June 16 as part of Zionist leader Leon Simon’s archives.
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