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Neta Dan (left) speaks about the mysteries of archival research at the Academy of the Hebrew Language's archive night, June 9, 2026 (Courtesy)
June 11, 2026, 12:42 pm
At Israel’s Archives Week event, a backstage look at the birth of modern Hebrew
From forgotten photographs and handwritten notes to aging microfilm reels, a weeklong series offers a rare glimpse of the documents curating the nation’s memory
By Zev Stub
Nirit Shalev-Khalifa places a flag on a stick next to the items she wants removed, in this case from the situation room of the security team at Kibbutz Kfar Aza close to the Gaza border, on January 2, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
January 7, 2024, 4:55 pm
Under expert eyes, objects retrieved from rubble help document October 7’s horrors
Thousands of items, from deckchairs to a donkey’s skull, are being salvaged, cataloged and stored near the Gaza border by visual history researchers
By Sue Surkes
Israeli premier Golda Meir, during a press conference at the Israeli embassy in Rome, Italy, on January 15, 1973. (AP Photo/ Giuseppe Anastasi)
July 31, 2023, 10:56 pm
Declassified protocols indicate Golda Meir considered Palestinian statehood
Documents show that former prime minister gave serious thought to possibility of formation of a Palestinian entity, despite public comments
By ToI Staff
Chaim Topol (left) in Efraim Kishon's 1964 film, 'Sallah Shabati,' now available to screen for a nominal fee from the Jerusalem Cinematheque Archives, through May 2023 (Courtesy United King Films)
April 24, 2023, 11:39 am
Cinematheque opens archive to global viewers for Israel’s 75th
For about a month, even non-Israelis can stream 75 classic films from the collection that are usually blocked outside of Israel, with both English and Hebrew subtitles
By Jessica Steinberg
Photographer Ardon Bar-Hama's digitizing camera setup. (Courtesy)
March 18, 2023, 10:31 am
Photographer who digitized Dead Sea Scrolls completes new Kirk Douglas archive
Ardon Bar-Hama regularly works with rare documents such as the Aleppo Codex, so when the Douglas Foundation tapped him for a 10,000-item collection, he was ready. Now it is, too
By Rich Tenorio
Israeli captives land in Israel after a prisoners of war exchange following the Yom Kippur War on November 15, 1973. (Avi Simchon/Bamahane/Defense Archive)
September 15, 2021, 3:04 pm
When freed after Yom Kippur War, Israeli PoWs railed at army, transcripts show
A week after their release from capture in 1973 fighting, troops who had been on the Egyptian front met top general, demanded answers for the IDF’s failures
By Judah Ari Gross
Philanthropist Dan David, for whom the Dan David Prize is named, and which now is considered the largest history prize in the world (Courtesy Dan David Foundation)
September 15, 2021, 10:46 am
Dan David prize becomes largest history award in world
Headquartered at Tel Aviv University, endowment will give 9 scholars $300,000 apiece for achievements in study of human history
By Jessica Steinberg
A color schematic of the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq, from an Israeli intelligence file, released on June 22, 2021. (Defense Ministry)
June 22, 2021, 8:47 pm
40 years after Iraq reactor raid, IDF reveals Ilan Ramon’s fears, intel sketches
Archive publishes papers relating to 1981 Osirak strike and video of famed pilot saying that mother’s Holocaust experiences inspired him despite the danger
By ToI Staff
Then-head of the IDF Northern Command Maj. Gen. Yizhak Hofi, left, speaks to then-IDF chief of staff David Elazar, right, and other IDF top officers during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in an undated photograph. (Defense Ministry Archive)
January 21, 2021, 9:30 pm
‘Maybe we should bomb Damascus?’: Yom Kippur War deliberations declassified
Defense Ministry releases transcripts of government meetings during 1973 conflict, showing the leadership’s uncertainty and concerns in the first few days of fighting
By Judah Ari Gross
US President Donald Trump arrives to address the nation from the White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing US troops in Washington, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
January 17, 2021, 4:01 am
Trump has been habitually ripping up documents; could leave a hole in US history
Staffers say they have spent hours taping together papers shredded by US president, despite law mandating preservation: ‘They told him to stop doing it. He didn’t want to stop’
By Deb Riechmann
Musician Asaf Roth, left, artistic director Anat Safran, middle and director Zvi Sahar of the Gnazim Itim Ensemble performance project produced in Tel Aviv's Beit Ariela public library and premiered December 28, 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
January 3, 2021, 2:35 pm
Letters from literary lights inspire artists in underground library show
Basement stacks of Tel Aviv’s Beit Ariela become online performance space for musicians, actors and dancers responding to authors’ letters
By Jessica Steinberg
Hannah Senesh and her brother Giora, right, in 1924, part of the Hannah Senesh archives at the National Library of Israel (Courtesy National Library of Israel)
November 30, 2020, 3:57 pm
Hannah Senesh archives, including handwritten poems, come to National Library
Access will be available to the diaries, songs, letters and notebooks of the Hungarian-born heroine and poet
By Jessica Steinberg
Hila Avraham (right) and Meir Russo, director of the archives, in the Jerusalem Cinematheque archives that were digitized for general use during the coronavirus (Courtesy Jerusalem Cinematheque)
October 2, 2020, 12:26 pm
In time for lockdown, Cinematheque puts film history treasure trove online
Israeli Film Archive holds over 30,000 titles, recorded on two million meters of film, now available online, for free
By Jessica Steinberg
Ben Peter, the third generation owner of The Photo House in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Ben Peter)
September 5, 2020, 6:48 am
Huge pre-state photo collection gets new life with third-generation owner
Ben Peter took over the family business, The Photo House in Tel Aviv, with a sense of responsibility and a dream
By Jessica Steinberg
A student engages with 'Every Name Counts' at the Elisabeth-Knipping-Schule in Kassel, Germany. (Johanna Gross)
July 22, 2020, 3:34 am
You can help Nazi victims’ families learn their fates in online archive project
Thousands answer crowdsourcing call to assist Germany’s Arolsen Archives in making 26 million newly digitized historical documents searchable by anyone online
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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