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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

The National Library of Israel

From 'One Kafka, One Hundred Times' by illustrator Michel Kichka, for the National Library exhibit 'Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author,' December 2024-June 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
December 3, 2024, 5:06 pm
Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit
Wide-ranging exhibition ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author’ features the institution’s singular archives and marks 100 years since the Czech author’s death
By Jessica Steinberg
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
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
Destroyed houses from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 1:31 am
After reaching Israel days after Oct. 7, USC Shoah Foundation is now helping record it
The organization’s researchers gathered hundreds of witness testimonies after the massacre and is sharing them with Israel’s National Library while advising on forming a collection
By Matt Lebovic
Interior view of the new National Library of Israel, 2023. (Iwan Baan)
October 1, 2024, 10:07 am
National Library counts 169 publications so far about Oct. 7
Annual survey updated to show effects of ongoing war and hostage situation on writing process
By Jessica Steinberg
A still from 'We Will Dance Again,' a documentary about the Supernova desert rave, showing October 7, 2023 Supernova victim Keshet Casarotti-Kalfa. (Courtesy: Shax Photography and the production)
August 8, 2024, 11:52 pm
Docu festival at National Library to feature film on Nova rave massacre
Event brings more than 20 documentary films to the indoor and outdoor spaces of the new library complex, including ‘We Will Dance Again’
By Jessica Steinberg
A giant bean bag cushion in Poof Sipur at the National Library of Israel, inspired by the children's story, 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' as imagined by textile artist Naama Ben Moshe (Courtesy Roni Cnaani)
July 30, 2024, 9:10 am
At National Library, kids curl up on bean bags inspired by books
Poof Sipur is library’s summer attraction for children, bringing textile artists to design giant cushions for comfy reading
By Jessica Steinberg
Textile artist Yael Cnaani channeled piles of books and the exterior walls of the building in creating her artwork for the National Library of Israel, inaugurated June 4, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
June 10, 2024, 3:18 pm
Massive wall tapestry mimics piles of books at new National Library
Yael Cnaani’s pillow-like wall covers some 598 square yards, echoing building’s exterior stone walls
By Jessica Steinberg
Composite image of the late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon against a backdrop of one of his diary pages, recovered and restored after the fatal 2003 explosion of the space shuttle Columbia. (courtesy NLI)
May 29, 2024, 6:05 pm
Ilan Ramon’s space diary moved to National Library
Late Israeli astronaut’s handwritten pages survived the 2003 explosion that destroyed the Space Shuttle Columbia during reentry, killing all aboard
By Gavriel Fiske
Yaara Cohen, 16, will perform the song she composed on May 9, 2024 at the National Library for her music teacher Shlomi Mathias, killed with his wife, Deborah Mathias, by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
May 9, 2024, 12:07 pm
Teen musician gets national platform to perform song she wrote for teacher killed Oct. 7
Yaara Cohen will sing ‘Grapefruit Tree’ at a pre-Memorial Day event at the National Library, in memory of Shlomi Mathias, killed with his wife at Kibbutz Holit
By Jessica Steinberg
Dan Hadani visits the National Library of Israel during Passover in April 2024 (David Peretz/National Library of Israel)
May 8, 2024, 2:13 pm
100-year-old who shaped Israeli photojournalism takes stage to share Holocaust survival
Cultural icon Dan Hadani survived the Lodz Ghetto and multiple Nazi camps. A lifelong chronicler, he continues to tell his story at the National Library of Israel
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Lord Jacob Rothschild arrives for a reception hosted by Britain's Prince Charles at Clarence House in London, July 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
February 27, 2024, 3:55 pm
Lord Jacob Rothschild, upheld family’s legacy to benefit UK, Israel, Jews worldwide
The Oxford-educated aristocrat took great pride in his philanthropy in Israel, in particular the new National Library, described himself as ‘deeply conscious of his Jewish roots’
By Charlie Summers
Composer and kamanche player Mark Eliyahu and his father, Piris Eliyahu (left) in performance at the National Library of Israel on February 15, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
February 20, 2024, 4:30 pm
With ‘About Love,’ composer Mark Eliyahu strings along his devotees
Kamancheh player, who composed the theme music for TV show ‘Tehran’, performs with father, Piris Eliyahu, and three other musical colleagues for East-meets-West journey of sound
By Jessica Steinberg
An undated photo of part of the Nahum Collection of Yemenite Manuscripts, which comprises 60,000 Yemenite-Jewish manuscripts and fragments, and which the National Library of Israel said in January 2024 was set to become available to researchers and scholars. (NLI via JTA)
January 23, 2024, 10:17 pm
Major Judaica trove amassed by Yemenite Jewish butcher donated to National Library
Put together over 50 years by Yehuda Levi Nahum, collection includes translated Maimonides manuscripts and writings by key Yemenite Jewish writers
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Film director Talia Finkel interviews Yifat Ben Shoshan, resident of Netiv HaAsara for the 'Edut 710' oral history initiative (Kobi Yonatan)
December 12, 2023, 7:25 am
National Library of Israel collecting all documentation of Hamas massacre and war
Institution for collective cultural memory of the State of Israel and the Jewish people meets the challenge of amassing material in real time while the events are being denied
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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