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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

The Central Zionist Archives

Susan Burns, curator at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem points to the opening of Herzl's 'Altneuland,' on May 9, 2022. (Screen grab/Channel 13)
May 14, 2022, 1:26 pm
Handwritten manuscript of Herzl’s utopian ‘Altneuland’ on display for first time
Each of the 396 pages is insured for NIS 1 million; curator says father of Zionism’s vision of modern Israel, with light rail and electronic newspapers, is part ‘prophecy’
By Michael Horovitz
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
Esther Herlitz (screen capture: YouTube)
March 26, 2016, 8:44 pm
Israel’s first female ambassador passes away at 94
Esther Herlitz, who served as a diplomat and MK, received the 2015 Israel Prize for her contributions to the nation
By ToI Staff
Auschwitz's Block 10, where medical experiments were conducted on the camp's inmates. (CC BY-SA, VbCrLf, Wikimedia Commons)
January 26, 2016, 4:19 am
New testimony sheds light on Nazi medical experiments
Heinz Reimer, a survivor of multiple camps, recalled being infected with malaria and syphilis so Nazi doctors could try cures on him
By JTA
Chairman Samuel Dickstein, left, of the House Immigration Committee, discussing the bill of Rep. William Schulte, D-Ind., to restrict immigration into the United States from Mexico, March 7, 1934. (AP Images, via JTA)
November 28, 2015, 7:09 pm
Some Jewish refugees really were Nazis, and other illuminating facts
Then, as now, the world looked to the US for leadership; then, as now, American popular opinion opposed allowing them in
By Ron Kampeas
Israel Zangwill (third from right in the front row) with a group of early Zionist thinkers (Copyright Jewish Museum, London)
August 28, 2015, 11:30 am
Early Zionist thinker’s whodunnit republished by HarperCollins
Controversial British author/ideologue Israel Zangwill’s 1891 classic crime novel hit the book stands again this month
By Jenni Frazer
Ampoule of Dr. Waldemar Haffkine's original cholera vaccine. Letter on left was written in 1989 by Central Zionist Archives employee. Letter on right is believed to have been written by Haffkine. (Courtesy Tower of David Museum)
January 20, 2015, 2:32 am
Original cholera vaccine turns up in Jerusalem
Buried in archives for decades, glass ampoule from 1892 now on display
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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