Haim Shaul ben Shmuel Mizrahi was born in 1901 on the Greek island of Corfu. He was a Zionist, and as a child, in 1913, he established in Corfu the "Tikvat Zion" (Hope of Zion) youth movement. In 1924, Mizrahi established a Zionist association named "Theodor Herzl", which became affiliated to the Revisionist movement. Mizrahi himself served as the commissioner of the "Betar" revisionist youth movement in Corfu. Mizrahi was fluent in Hebrew, often visited Eretz Israel, and was a member of the "Eretz Israel Ramblers' Club". During the 1950s, the Israeli cultural attaché in Greece met him, and reported that Mizrahi had appointed himself Israel's honorary consul in Corfu. Haim Mizrahi passed away in 1969. Haim Mizrahi's collection in the National Library of Israel comprises approximately 75 documents, most of which are related to the activities of the Revisionist movement in the Balkans, namely Salonica, Greece, and Corfu, between 1932-1938. The collection also contains some personal documents and letters, most of which belong to Mizrahi himself, as well as a few documents from the Jewish community in Corfu from the nineteenth century. The collection was purchased by the National library of Israel in 2009. More documents from Mizrahi's estate are kept at the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv. Another part of his estate is in private hands, and includes Mizrahi's personal diaries, in which he describes his visits to Eretz Israel, and his impressions of the country, with emphasis on biblical contexts. Also in the private collection are high-quality panoramic photographs of Eretz Israel, which detail various Jewish and Arab communities in the country, and a photograph album from Greece and Corfu, which documents members of his family. Mizrahi himself appears in most of the photographs. Mizrahi's photograph collection is displayed at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv.
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