National Library of Israel
The Passover playbook: Jerusalem activities the whole family can rally around during war
This year, everything will be operating according to the instructions from the Home Front Command. Things may be subject to last-minute changes.
Jerusalem highlights: March 27-April 2
'My family will finally hear my story': New IDF reservist archive launches
Amir Harash wins Sapir Prize for 2025; Roni Partchek takes debut award
Why did medieval haggadot include pictures of men pointing at their wives?
This long-forgotten Passover custom was dealt a bitter blow by a sharp wife in a 15th-century Haggadah.
Poems and stories by the Jewish children of Kharkiv, Ukraine
A booklet labeled “The Lives of Children,” preserved at the National Library of Israel, contains Hebrew stories and poems written a century ago by Jewish high school students in Ukraine.
World’s largest kabbalah collection to move to Israel's National Library
Leaving the Hebrew University’s Givat Ram campus after 40 years, it will relocate two kilometers to the northeast to its permanent home at the new NLI on Ruppin Boulevard.
National Library’s Ramadan Online presents rare Islamic manuscripts for holiday
NLI's Islam and Middle East Collection one of the region's leading collections, includes 2,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian and Turkish dating from the ninth to the 20th centuries.
Educators awarded NIS 120,000 in new prize for humanities teachers
Nechama Weingarten Mintz, Dr. Gadi Prodowski and Ziv Shaham are the first recipients of the new award for distinguished teachers in the field of humanities.
The Pope and Haman in Renaissance Italy
The only known manuscript of The Chronicle of Pope Paul IV is at the National Library in Jerusalem.
National Library unveils largest collection of Esther scrolls in the world
As the nation marks Purim, the National Library provides a rare glimpse into part of its collection of Esther scrolls.
Italian Jewish communities look to digitize 35,000 Jewish texts
Tens of thousands of uncatalogued printed Hebrew books dating back hundreds of years, are held in collections belonging to local Jewish communities.
UAE Archives directors visit Israel’s National Library for first time ever
Among the fields of collaboration agreed to in the 2020 Abraham Accords, the two institutions are working to preserve historical memory and cultural heritage.
Three million dollars for creating digital presence of cultural heritage treasures
An initiative of Yad Hanadiv and a collaboration with the National Library of Israel (NLI), “TARBOOT” seeks to connect technology talent from Israel and abroad to the worlds of culture and the arts.
