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Israeli author meir Shalev speaks at the 25th Jerusalem National Book Festival held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem. February 22, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 14, 2024, 5:24 pm
National Library gets Meir Shalev archive, will restrict access per author’s wish
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
By ToI Staff
A letter from acting archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall to former President Donald Trump's legal team is photographed on August 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
August 24, 2022, 11:57 am
National Archives letter reveals scope of classified documents retained by Trump
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
By ToI Staff
Trump supporters at a rally before an assault on the US Capitol, Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
February 16, 2022, 4:13 pm
Biden orders release of Trump White House logs to panel probing US Capitol riot
Despite executive privilege claim, records will go to committee examining ex-president’s failure to stop violence
By Colleen Long
An exhibit at the National Archives marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, in a photo taken Feb. 5, 2020. (National Archives photo by Susana Raab via JTA)
February 8, 2020, 3:43 pm
At Ford-sponsored Auschwitz exhibit, no sign of founder’s role in Nazi machine
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
By Ron Kampeas
This undated photo made available by David Deri, the director of the documentary series, 'The Ancestral Sin,' shows photographs of Masud Deri, left, and Masud Deritaken the day they immigrated to Israel in March 1963. (Courtesy of David Deri via AP)
April 18, 2018, 3:22 am
Israeli TV series exposes raw wounds from ethnic Jewish divide
‘The Ancestral Sin’ shows racist attitudes of European-born leadership to Middle Eastern and North African immigrants
By Tia Goldenberg
A World Jewish Congress meeting on North African Jewry in 1952. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
March 25, 2018, 6:45 pm
Amid racism claims, state to open archives on Jewish North African immigration
PM makes records accessible following TV series documenting systematic abuses against Moroccans in early years of Israel
By ToI Staff
Volunteers attempt to recover Iraqi Jewish archival material from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, 2003. (Harold Rhode, Courtesy of the US National Archives)
September 8, 2017, 11:06 pm
Despite protests, US to return trove of Jewish artifacts to Iraq
Historic Iraqi Jewish Archive had been found in flooded basement of the Iraqi secret services headquarters in Baghdad after Second Gulf War
By Josefin Dolsten
Then-prime minister Levi Eshkol, center, and future prime minister Menachem Begin, right, greet troops in the Sinai Peninsula following the Six Day War on June 13, 1967. (GPO)
May 18, 2017, 3:42 pm
After Six Day War, cabinet debated West Bank’s future – and Charles De Gaulle’s nose
National archives release transcripts from 1967 cabinet meetings, showing the intense discussions and petty squabbles before, after and during the conflict
By Judah Ari Gross
A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo/File)
April 3, 2016, 7:52 pm
Freed from Auschwitz, UK survivors seeking reparations found a wall instead
Newly unveiled archives show British officials exhibited almost no compassion for Holocaust survivor applicants to a £1m. compensation fund jointly administered with West Germany
By Jenni Frazer
Volunteers attempt to recover Iraqi Jewish archival material from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, 2003. (Harold Rhode, Courtesy of the US National Archives)
January 6, 2016, 8:20 pm
Who should keep Iraqi Jewry’s archives, saved from Saddam, now on tour in US?
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
By Rich Tenorio
Sir Basil Zaharoff, the arms dealer, one of the richest men in Europe, is seen on the streets of Monte Carlo, February 3, 1931. (AP Photo)
November 30, 2015, 2:30 pm
A scandal of international proportions comes out of the vaults
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
By Jenni Frazer
A young Jewish refugee and her Chinese girlfriends in Shanghai during World War II (photo credit: Courtesy Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum)
November 23, 2014, 8:51 pm
National Archives opens postwar Shanghai visa records
20,000 Jews fled to China from the Holocaust and many then applied at the US consulate to travel to America
By JTA
Centuries-old books and documents from the Iraqi Jewish archive await preservation. (photo credit: Courtesy The National Archives)
March 10, 2014, 6:43 am
Battle over Iraqi Jewish archive heads to US House
Jewish groups and Iraqi Jews around the world oppose the planned return of centuries-old texts and documents to Iraq
By JTA
Thousands of waterlogged Jewish books and documents shortly after their discovery in a flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's former intelligence headquarters, May 2003. (Photo credit: courtesy The National Archives)
November 13, 2013, 6:13 am
Don’t give Baghdad trove of Jewish artifacts, groups urge US
Over 40 Jewish organizations write letter urging Washington not to return Jewish documents recovered from Iraqi basement in 2003
By ToI Staff and Ben Zehavi
Thousands of waterlogged Jewish books and documents shortly after their discovery in a flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's former intelligence headquarters, May 2003. (Photo credit: courtesy The National Archives)
November 6, 2013, 12:41 am
Rescued from Saddam, Iraqi Jewish archive finally on display
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?
By Ben Zehavi
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