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Israel: lot of 12 first flight and special flight covers from Lod airport, 1956-1973, including the SAS flight to Tokyo via the North Pole, the first flight to the Independent Republic Togo and the first Soviet Jews to land after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War - Lot of 12 Israeli flight covers, most of them registered and sent by air mail, with Israeli stamps and Lod Sede Te'ufa or Lod Nemal Te'ufa postmarks: 1. Sabena first flight Lod-Brussels-Palma de Mallorca, 24.4.1956, with the Sabena first air link handstamp; 2. SAS first flight Sweden-Tokyo via the North Pole (Lod-Stockholm-Tokyo), 18.2.1957, registered; 3. Swissair first flight Israel-Brazil, flight SR 460 Lod-Rio de Janeiro, 11.4.1957, registered; 4. first flight to the Independent Republic Togo, Lydda-Lome, 1957, registered, with the 400 prutot Bezalel jubilee stamp with tab; 5. El Al flight LY 417, first flight Israel-Germany (Lod-Cologne), 24.2.1958, registered; 6. special flight Elat-Frankfurt on the day of issue of the air mail stamps, 13.2.1963, with the three bird stamps with tabs, registered express, with Retour and Inconnu handstamps; 7. special flight Lod-Istanbul for the ISTANBUL '63 international stamp exhibition, 5.9.1963, registered; 8. special flight to the opening of the New York World's Fair, 22.4.1964, registered, with the El Al stamp with tab; 9. Lufthansa LH 650 transpolar first flight Frankfurt-Anchorage-Tokyo, 25.5.1964, registered; 10. El Al first flight Lod-Constanza, 7.5.1968, registered; 11. El Al, the first Soviet Jews to arrive by jumbo jet since the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, 8.10.1973; 12. first flight of the American airlift with equipment for the UN Emergency Force (UNEF), Lod airport, 23.11.1973. Some covers bear arrival postmarks on the back. Condition: exactly as photographed. Units in lot: 12