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.

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

Jerusalem highlights: March 27-April 2

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

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


National Library receives genealogical history of Ireland's Jews

The event featured guests such as Irish Ambassador to Israel H.E. Kyle O'Sullivan, NLI Chairman Ambassador Sallai Meridor and Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Yossi Havilio.

A 22-volume genealogical history of the Jewish communities of Ireland by Stuart Rosenblatt is presented to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem on December 19, 2022.

Israeli effort to study medieval Hebrew manuscripts gets European funds

Tens of thousands of these have already been gathered from collections worldwide and digitally imaged and curated by the National Library of Israel's KTIV collection.

 1738 holiday blessings and prayer book from Bavaria in Ashkenazic writing.

TARBOOT contest announces startup winners

TARBOOT is an international technology innovation competition dealing with the digital use of heritage and cultural content.

 Finalists and judges of the TARBOOT competition at the National Library of Israel.

National Library of Israel set to open in March

What will the National Library of Israel's new complex look like? CEO Oren Weinberg releases details of the new Jerusalem landmark.

 An architectural rendering of the new National Library of Israel building designed by the prestigious Swiss firm, Herzog & de Meuron. (© Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects, Executive Architect)

Grapevine: ‘Nachas’ and nosh

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Simulation of the new David Geffen Auditorium

Manuscript discovered detailing Inquisition trials against Jews in Portugal

The 60-page document lists the dates and locations of autos-da-fé along with the number of victims at each trial. 

  18th century manuscript, found in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at the National Library of Israel, includes details from the first 130 years of the Portuguese Inquisition in Lisbon, including numbers of the victims, charges and sentences

Jerusalem highlights April 29-May 5

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

 JERUSALEM SYMPHONY Orchestra.

This week in Jerusalem: Load a car

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 THE FIRST 100 car-charging stations have been set up all over the city.

Grapevine: Meet the Meridors

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Former ambassador Sallai Meridor 390 (R)

Passover: Centuries-old haggadahs now available for download

The book disappeared for many years but was eventually returned to the Rothschild family, who later donated it to the National Library of Israel.

 These centuries-old haggadahs are now available for download to use at your Passover seder.