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Life After Death: On the Works of Aner Shapira

Lives Lost: The Works of the October 7 Fallen – Marcel Freilich-Kaplon

Lives Lost: The Works of the October 7 Fallen – Bilhah Yinon

Space Left Behind: Ilan Ramon’s Diary Has Arrived

“Different Nights”: Alice Shalvi Recounts Passover During & After the War

Why Did Moroccan Jews Bring Moses Into the Passover Haggadah?

Red Boots, Red Berets: The Story of the Paratroopers Brigade

The Mystery of the Spanish Esther Scroll

The Final Days of the Jewish Community in Gaza

“You can recover from this”: When Past Captives Told Their Stories

The Search for Meaning Continues: When Viktor Frankl Returns to the Bestseller Lists

The Emotional Resonance of Music During War

Every Hostage Has a Story: A New Exhibit at The National Library of Israel

When Israel Comes Together

Women on the Homefront in 1973: How the Kibbutzim Coped With War

Refugees of the Yom Kippur War: The Evacuees of Mevo Hama

Growing Up Overnight: The Teenagers of the Yom Kippur War

Life on the Border: The Community of Nahal Oz

The Incarnations of the “Avinu Malkeinu” Piyut from the Talmud to Barbara Streisand

Lab Results Confirm: This Ibn Sina Manuscript Is Nearly 1000 Years Old

Unveiling the Connection: Why We Read the Book of Ruth on Shavuot

Haircuts on Lag BaOmer: The first printed documentation

Yom HaZikaron: A Light in the Darkness

Tracking a Child’s Footprint: The Rescue of France’s Jewish Children in the Holocaust

These Passover Haggadot Will Leave You Speechless

The Haggadot collection at the National Library is the largest in the world and we’ve collected them here in a special online exhibition.

Ode to the National Library of Israel, the Love of My Youth

The Case of Agatha Christie’s Mysterious Disappearance

Yalta- The First Jewish Feminist

If you haven’t heard of Yalta yet, it’s okay – many people haven’t. But as the second most mentioned woman in the Talmud, Yalta does…

The Magical Reincarnation of the Ancient Date Tree

The Bar Mitzvah Gift That Survived the Holocaust

Hannah Senesh’s Hanukkah

Latkes, Hanukkah Donuts and the Head of Holofernes

Separation: The Origin of the Women’s Section in the Synagogue

An Arab Qur’an with a Persian Identity

Revealed: Immigration Documents Filled Out by Austrian Jews During the Nazi Occupation

Gandhi’s 1939 Rosh Hashanah Greeting to the Jewish People

Dala’il al-Khayrat: Depicting Mecca Across the Islamic World

In the Shadow of War: When Stan Lee and Dr. Seuss Battled Fascism

Poems and Stories by the Jewish Children of Kharkiv, Ukraine

Cultivating a Jewish Literary Legacy

Isaac Newton’s Map of the Apocalypse

The Tulsa Race Massacre and Oklahoma’s Jews (Most Popular Article of 2021)

A Letter from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to His Wife Constanze

The Clinton Bailey Archive of Bedouin Culture Comes to the National Library of Israel