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.

|ByRONIT ANSBACHER, JOANNA SHEBSON
Kol HaOt Passover Festival.
‘A Ma’apilim Ship,’ painting by Marcel Janco (see Friday).

Jerusalem highlights: March 27-April 2

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

|ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Life on the Line is a digital archive designed to document resesrvists' experiences.

'My family will finally hear my story': New IDF reservist archive launches

The project, known in Hebrew as “Chaim al Hakav” (Life on the Line), described itself as a national digital archive designed to document reservists’ experiences.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
From right: 2025 Sapir Prize debut winner Roni Partchek, honored for her novel “Sitara,” with Mifal HaPais CEO Adv. Beni Dreyfus, judging committee chair Dr. Ruth Calderon, Mifal HaPais board chair Itzik Lari, and 2025 Sapir Prize winner Amir Harash, awarded for “Bereavement and Failure and Zombies.

Amir Harash wins Sapir Prize for 2025; Roni Partchek takes debut award

Harash received the top honor at a ceremony held at the National Library of Israel, which hosted the prize event as part of celebrations marking 25 years since the award’s founding. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Inscribing Oct. 7: National Library of Israel aims to preserve realities of war

The National Library’s Bearing Witness project aims to preserve the ephemeral realities of war

OCTOBER 25, 2024ByJENNA ROMANO
NLI Bearing Witness: Ceremony in memory of 42 French citizens murdered on Oct. 7. Paris, Feb. 2024

Jerusalem highlights: October 18-24

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

OCTOBER 18, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Chen Lev Ari in 'The Fox and the Tree.'

Grapevine: Friendship at the feast

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 17, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
THE NEW reading room of the National Library of Israel.

Ancient texts belonging to the Beta Israel community are set to be made available for public

Among the texts included in the project and penned in the Ge'ez language, is the Orit, the Beta Israel Torah which includes the five books of the Torah, the book of Joshua, Judges and Ruth.

OCTOBER 15, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Chief Kes Berko Tegegne reads from the Orit, written in the Ge’ez language.

Eylon Levy to promote Israel’s KAN's Virtual Museum on October 7 massacre in English

Launched in Hebrew on the first October 7 Memorial Day earlier this week, the 7.10.360 Virtual Museum allows users to embark on a virtual journey through the locations impacted by the massacre.

OCTOBER 9, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
KAN's 7.10 digital memorial project.

The rare, unusual Rosh Hashanah-Yom Kippur 'machzorim' at the National Library of Israel

One of the world’s largest collections of machzorim may be found at the National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024ByDAVID GEFFEN
Seder Nashim (c. 1550)

USC Shoah Foundation testimonies, including that of Oct. 7, to be available in Hebrew

The USC archive features some 59,000 videos, which include testimonies of Holocaust survivors and that of victims of the October 7 massacre.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Kibbutz Nir Oz after the massacre

Jerusalem Highlights: September 20-27

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
'Truck in the Gaza border area'

'The Ark': 2024 Jerusalem Design Week sparks new perspectives for future

Curated by Dana Benshalom and Sonja Olitsky, Jerusalem Design Week 2024 will open on September 19 at its flagship location, Hansen House.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024ByJENNA ROMANO
An illustrative image meant to indicate the 2024 Jerusalem Design Week.

Grapevine: Jerusalem is blooming

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 25, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
New National Library of Israel building in Jerusalem, exterior.