The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/national-archives/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:10:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png National Archives | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/national-archives/ 32 32 National Library gets Meir Shalev archive, will restrict access per author’s wish https://www.timesofisrael.com/national-library-gets-meir-shalev-archive-will-restrict-access-per-authors-wish/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:24:46 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3397105 Institution set to comply with literary icon's request to keep much of his archive out of public sight for up to 10 years, while making other items accessible in 2025

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]]> National Archives letter reveals scope of classified documents retained by Trump https://www.timesofisrael.com/national-archives-letter-reveals-scope-of-classified-documents-retained-by-trump/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:57:07 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2823663 Ex-US president held on to material relating to some of the country's most sensitive secrets and may have obstructed an investigation into the matter, newly leaked letter indicates

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]]> Biden orders release of Trump White House logs to panel probing US Capitol riot https://www.timesofisrael.com/biden-orders-release-of-trump-white-house-logs-to-panel-probing-us-capitol-riot/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:13:22 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2703426 Despite executive privilege claim, records will go to committee examining ex-president's failure to stop violence

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]]> At Ford-sponsored Auschwitz exhibit, no sign of founder’s role in Nazi machine https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-ford-sponsored-auschwitz-exhibit-no-sign-of-founders-role-in-nazi-machine/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 13:43:48 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2236765 Exhibition at US National Archives to mark 75 years since liberation of death camp makes no mention of Henry Ford-owned company using slave labor to build German trucks during war

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]]> Israeli TV series exposes raw wounds from ethnic Jewish divide https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tv-series-exposes-raw-wounds-from-ethnic-jewish-divide/ Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:22:59 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1831735 'The Ancestral Sin' shows racist attitudes of European-born leadership to Middle Eastern and North African immigrants

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]]> Amid racism claims, state to open archives on Jewish North African immigration https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-racism-claims-state-to-open-archives-on-jewish-north-african-immigration/ Sun, 25 Mar 2018 15:45:48 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1817152 PM makes records accessible following TV series documenting systematic abuses against Moroccans in early years of Israel

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]]> Despite protests, US to return trove of Jewish artifacts to Iraq https://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-protests-us-to-return-trove-of-jewish-artifacts-to-iraq/ Fri, 08 Sep 2017 20:06:42 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1690269 Historic Iraqi Jewish Archive had been found in flooded basement of the Iraqi secret services headquarters in Baghdad after Second Gulf War

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]]> After Six Day War, cabinet debated West Bank’s future – and Charles De Gaulle’s nose https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-six-day-war-cabinet-debated-west-banks-future-and-charles-de-gaulles-nose/ Thu, 18 May 2017 12:42:31 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1621647 National archives release transcripts from 1967 cabinet meetings, showing the intense discussions and petty squabbles before, after and during the conflict

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]]> Freed from Auschwitz, UK survivors seeking reparations found a wall instead https://www.timesofisrael.com/freed-from-auschwitz-uk-survivors-seeking-reparations-found-a-wall-instead/ Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:52:57 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1368986 Newly unveiled archives show British officials exhibited almost no compassion for Holocaust survivor applicants to a £1m. compensation fund jointly administered with West Germany

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]]> Who should keep Iraqi Jewry’s archives, saved from Saddam, now on tour in US? https://www.timesofisrael.com/who-should-keep-iraqi-jewrys-archives-saved-from-saddam-now-on-tour-in-us/ Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:20:23 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1309830 The future of a unique collection, salvaged in a 'Monuments Men-style' rescue from a secret police HQ in Baghdad, 2003, is up for grabs

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]]> A scandal of international proportions comes out of the vaults https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-scandal-of-international-proportions-comes-out-of-the-vaults/ Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:30:32 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1280171 The real-life WWI political intricacies of Sir Basil Zaharoff -- a man once known as ‘the wickedest man in Europe’ -- are the stuff of Hollywood legend

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]]> National Archives opens postwar Shanghai visa records https://www.timesofisrael.com/national-archives-opens-postwar-shanghai-visa-archives/ Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:51:14 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1096285 20,000 Jews fled to China from the Holocaust and many then applied at the US consulate to travel to America

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]]> Battle over Iraqi Jewish archive heads to US House https://www.timesofisrael.com/battle-over-iraqi-jewish-archive-heads-to-us-house/ Mon, 10 Mar 2014 04:43:13 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=906134 Jewish groups and Iraqi Jews around the world oppose the planned return of centuries-old texts and documents to Iraq

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]]> Don’t give Baghdad trove of Jewish artifacts, groups urge US https://www.timesofisrael.com/dont-give-baghdad-trove-of-jewish-artifacts-groups-urge-us/ Wed, 13 Nov 2013 04:13:05 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=747156 Over 40 Jewish organizations write letter urging Washington not to return Jewish documents recovered from Iraqi basement in 2003

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]]> Rescued from Saddam, Iraqi Jewish archive finally on display https://www.timesofisrael.com/rescued-from-saddam-iraqi-jewish-archive-finally-on-display/ Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:41:58 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=737192 Some of the thousands of Jewish items recovered by US troops from a flooded Baghdad basement have been painstakingly restored for public display. But should they return to Iraq next year?

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