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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

Israel State Archives

Adolf Eichmann standing in his glass cage, flanked by guards, in the Jerusalem courtroom during his trial in 1961 for war crimes committed during World War II. (AP Photo/File)
January 27, 2025, 4:06 pm
Israel national archive opens online access to 380,000 pages of Eichmann trial documents
Trove of scanned paperwork include prosecutors’ correspondence with Ben-Gurion, original testimonies including from writer Yehiel Dinur who met Nazi war criminal in Auschwitz
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of documents stored at the Israel State Archives in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 14, 2024, 5:33 am
7 months after Iran-backed cyberattack, temporary fix puts state archives back online
In November, hackers perpetrated a ‘sophisticated and destructive’ assault and stole user data, putting protected materials at risk; more secure website planned for later this year
By Gavriel Fiske
An IDF soldier looks at a Skyhawk warplane in the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War, October 1973. (State Archives)
September 7, 2023, 12:23 pm
‘We had wrong assessments’: Almost all remaining Yom Kippur War files declassified
Ahead of 50th anniversary, State Archives reveals thousands of documents and records of the intelligence failure that preceded the war, debates on a preemptive strike, and more
By Michael Bachner
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
A Jewish child immigrant from Casablanca, Morocco, is seen with luggage at Lod Airport, September 24, 1955. (ELDAN DAVID/GPO)
January 12, 2023, 4:48 am
Israeli immigration records dating back to 1919 now accessible online
MyHeritage shares 1.7 million files covering a roughly 60-year period, touts the database as Israel’s version of Ellis Island
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Then-prime minister Golda Meir speaks at a press conference during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in an undated photograph. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Defense Ministry Archive)
October 8, 2021, 3:49 pm
World will ‘throw us to the dogs’: Yom Kippur War papers reveal Golda’s despair
48 years on, declassified papers show PM Meir feared abandon by int’l community: ‘They don’t like Jews, let alone weak Jews’; State Archive publishes 1,300 pages of transcripts
By Emanuel Fabian
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
June 20, 2021, 8:55 am
PM’s office expected to probe claims Netanyahu shredded papers before transition
Report says initial investigation will be informal, but an official probe could be opened by external body such as Defense Ministry or Shin Bet if deemed necessary
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 1, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
June 18, 2021, 9:39 pm
MKs demand probe into allegations Netanyahu shredded papers before transition
Labor lawmaker Kariv urges AG to open investigation and Meretz’s Golan posits evidence-tampering could have taken place, but Likud says all documents stored digitally
By ToI Staff
A folk troupe at Kibbutz Dalia, 1944 (GPO, Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)
November 29, 2018, 7:13 pm
Wikipedia uploads 28,000 photos of pre-state Israel, for all to use
Wikimedia Israel gathers early 20th century images with expired copyright from various archives, though some claim move could have legal complications
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)
October 5, 2018, 9:47 am
Yemenite families of disappeared children file class-action lawsuit
Suit seeks to force the state to accept responsibility for at least 69 children who disappeared from state institutions in the 1950s
By ToI Staff
View of the classified documents related to the Yemenite Children Affair, at the Israel State Archives offices in Jerusalem, December 22, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 12, 2018, 4:46 pm
State told to release 300,000 unpublished files on missing Yemenite children
Justice Minister Shaked orders police documents be produced; calls on two health and welfare organizations to publish any material they have
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
A scan of the citizenship request of 20-year-old Szymel Perski, later the Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, in the British Mandate of Palestine, stamped October 1943. (Israel State Archives)
December 28, 2017, 3:19 pm
Archive of pre-state Jewish population offers glimpse of founding generation
Collaboration between MyHeritage and Israel’s State Archives puts 67,000 British Mandatory citizenship requests online
By ToI Staff
In this Feb. 28, 1989 file photo, real estate mogul Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in New York, announcing the opening of his Taj Mahal Resort Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/David Cantor, File)
May 10, 2017, 10:20 am
The curious case of Donald Trump’s 1989 (non-)visit to Israel
The release of state files showing extensive preparations to take the developer around Israel 28 years ago has been seized upon as proof that this month’s visit won’t be Trump’s first. Except there’s no record of him actually being here, and nobody can recall meeting him
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative photo of the Israeli state archives in Jerusalem on September 3, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 15, 2017, 9:41 am
‘Arbitrarily’ marking papers secret, state created enduring kidnapping mystery
In declassifying hundreds of thousands of documents in the so-called ‘Yemenite children affair,’ state archive’s legal counsel sought to safeguard privacy without fueling cover-up claims. For the families, the story is far from over
By Marissa Newman
A nursery at the Rosh Ha'ayin refugee camp housing Yemenite Jewish immigrants in the 1950s (Brauner Teddy/GPO)
December 29, 2016, 4:17 pm
New data on missing Yemenite children shows gross negligence, but not state-sponsored kidnappings
Release of over 400,000 documents reveals widespread indifference to families’ plight, but does not vindicate horrifying, long-held conspiracy theories
By ToI Staff
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