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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

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Liqa Kahenat Chief Kes Berko Tegegne reading from The Orit, at the National LIbrary of Israel, in a photgraph released on October 8, 2024. (Michael Zekri/NLI)
October 9, 2024, 5:42 pm
National Library announces digitization project of Beta Israel sacred manuscripts
Dozens of rare texts in Ge’ez, the ancient Semitic liturgical language used in Ethiopia, to be made available online to the public for the first time
By Gavriel Fiske
A member of the Kurdistan Center for Arts and Culture (KCAC) scans the pages of an old book as part of an effort to digitize historic Kurdish volumes and manuscripts, in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk on February 13, 2024. (Safin HAMID / AFP)
March 10, 2024, 9:32 am
‘Sacred job’: Iraqi Kurds digitize aging manuscripts to save vulnerable culture
Archival crew pursues rare documents that offer insight into nation’s history, carefully scans them for website set to launch in April
By AFP
Travelers at the departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, April 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 31, 2023, 11:27 am
El Al activates self-check-in at Ben Gurion Airport in bid to slash waiting time
‘The process is quick and simple,’ traveler says as national carrier joins other airlines in providing kiosks for the process
By ToI Staff
Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 7, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
August 21, 2022, 1:53 pm
Weigh and tag your own baggage: Ben Gurion Airport set for digital upgrade in 2023
Planned transformation to render check-in lines obsolete, slashing wait times, in step toward turning Israel’s main airport into one of world’s most advanced
By Tobias Siegal
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Thousands answer crowdsourcing call to assist Germany’s Arolsen Archives in making 26 million newly digitized historical documents searchable by anyone online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
Arabic petition with Hebrew writing from Cairo Geniza (Michelle Paymar)
May 16, 2019, 4:32 am
Documentary unravels history — and digital future — of mysterious Cairo Geniza
Film includes interviews with 40 experts who chart the strange discovery and continued scholarship of the mass of rare random documents that make for a rich ‘medieval Facebook’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Documents stored at the Israeli State Archives in Jerusalem, September 3, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
From the WebApril 21, 2016, 1:31 pm
Censors, transparency watchdogs spar as Israeli archive goes online
Reuters: Will the government take advantage of digitization to ‘adjust’ the country’s history?
Still image from a film from the Ephemeral Films Project. (Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
December 10, 2015, 4:05 am
Ephemeral films of Nazi era kept alive by digitalization
US Holocaust Memorial Museum partners with Austrian institutions to preserve historically important footage originally not meant to last
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Yad Vashem archive director Haim Gertner shows a musical score with German lyrics at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial archives in Jerusalem. September 8, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
September 15, 2014, 3:48 am
Holocaust experts work to preserve WWII-era items
As Yad Vashem gradually goes digital, workshop convenes to discuss physical conservation of original artifacts
By AP
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