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6 months

A little ray of light… Our new building is now open to all of you. This isn't how we planned things to be. We wanted this to be a festive, celebratory event showcasing our wonderful new building, but it seems celebrations will have to wait. Even so, we hope that our reading…

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David Ben-Gurion at the Western Wall in #Jerusalem 's Old City, decked out in late 60s Israeli fashion... This photo was taken shortly after the Old City was taken by the IDF during the Six-Day War, 55 years ago.

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7 years

למי שלא הספיק להתעדכן, להלן סיכום חדשות סוף השבוע (וגם לפני 30 שנה):

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A group of Israelis crowd around Jazz legend Louis Armstrong, in hopes of getting an autograph… Armstrong visited Israel in 1959 as part of a Middle East tour that also stopped in Lebanon & Egypt. Photo by Boris Karmi, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National…

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5 years

#OnThisDay , 70 years ago, the State of #Israel selected its official emblem. Here we offer you a rare look at some of the proposals that didn’t quite make the grade…

The Initial Proposals That Fell Short: How the Israeli National Emblem Was Chosen

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It's been 25 years since a train left this station 🚂🚃🚃🚃 The original Jerusalem train station was active for more than a century, opening in 1892 and shutting down in 1998. This photo was taken by Eddie Hirschbein in 1957, it is part of the Bitmuna Collection. The train…

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Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue, often known as the Esnoga, was completed on August 2, 1675. That was 348 years ago. The famous synagogue still stands today. Courtesy of William L. Gross

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This boy, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was born #OTD 120 yrs ago. The photo was taken in #Mykolaiv , #Ukraine before his 3rd bday. Nearly 50 yrs later he became the famed #Lubavitcher #Rebbe , leader of #Chabad .

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7 years

הבוקר הוחזרו לספרייה שני ספרים שהושאלו לפני 60 שנה. #תודה

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7 years

On July 3rd, 1904 Theodor Herzl passed away. He wished to be buried in the Jewish State he envisioned. And so he was, 45 years later.

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6 years

הם אומרים: נשים לא יכולות להיות לוחמות. נשים לא בנויות לזה. הן פשוט לא יכולות פיזיולוגית. אז אומרים. וידאו: יומני כרמל, אוקטובר 1948

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7 years

שינויים גדולים מתחילים בפרטים הקטנים. בשעה טובה הפכה רות מ"אשת בועז" ל"גיבורת מגילת רות" בתיאור שמו של הרחוב הירושלמי, מזל טוב!

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2 years

Today marks 50 years since the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes, coaches and referees at the #Munich Olympic Games. May their memory be a blessing. 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

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6 years

ישרא-בלוג, פלטפורמת הבלוגים הישראלית הראשונה והחשובה בתולדות התרבות הדיגיטלית הישראלית, עתידה להיסגר בסוף החודש. אם יש לכם בלוג בישראבלוג דעו שאנחנו בספרייה הלאומית עובדים במהירות כדי שהבלוגים ישמרו וישמשו גם את הדורות הבאים.

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6 years

"When I was in the darkness of solitary confinement, I used to play chess in my head, in order to maintain sanity…" Oct. 3rd, 1994: Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky holds #chess world champion Garry Kasparov to a draw in an exhibition match in Tel Aviv.

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7 years

המקפצה שלך לאזרחות (פורסם במקור ב-13.7.1979)

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4 years

Can we get a hug ☹️? We are sad to say that beginning on August 17th, our public services will be put on hold. The @NLIsrael 's 300 employees will be going on unpaid leave, due to a significant cut in the Library's budget, in addition to a drastic drop in income and donations.

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3 years

Residents of @TelAviv were quite delighted to be able to build a snowman back in early February, 1950! This one was placed in front of a theater where a production of Hamlet was running at the time⛄️ Photo by Rudi Weissenstein, the Photohouse Collection

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7 years

תמונות ראשונות! הרצוג מאחל הצלחה ל(שפם של) עמיר פרץ (צילום: ישראל סימיונסקי, אוסף דן הדני)

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6 months

Have a look at our new reading halls🙂❤️ All of you are now welcome to visit our new building! Photos: Yoni Kelberman/Tranquilo Productions

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7 years

הודעה חשובה: בעקבות הביקור הנשיאותי של החיה הג'ינג'ית, ציר המדרגות נחסם. הנכם מתבקשים לעלות ולרדת בדרכים חלופיות. בברכה, ההנהלה

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This photo is around a hundred years old... It displays the reading hall at one of the National Library's former locations - the Beit Ne'eman building on B'nai B'rith Street in Jerusalem. This was the early 1920s. The Library was actually founded well before that, in 1892.

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You do you Babs, you do you... To the one and only @BarbraStreisand - have a wonderful 80th birthday, you deserve it! Photo: Barbra Streisand arrives in @Israel , 1972, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection @NLIsrael

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6 years

השבוע לפני 63 שנה שם קץ לחייו בכלא הסורי סמל אורי אילן ז"ל, לאחר שנתפס יחד עם חולייתו שיצאה למבצע מעבר לגבול. אורי עבר עינויים בשבי וחשש כי יישבר בחקירה - ובחר במוות על פני הסגרת סודות המבצע. עם חזרת גופתו, נמצאו בבגדיו פתקים, ובהם המסר שהפך למיתוס: "לא בגדתי. התאבדתי"

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"I did not make 'Shoah' in response to revisionists and Holocaust deniers: one does not debate with such people." - Claude Lanzmann (1925-2018)

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5 years

This photo was taken by Rachel Posner in Kiel, Germany in 1931. Her husband, Rabbi Akiva Posner, was head of the local Jewish community. They fled Germany shortly after the Nazis came to power in 1933, eventually reaching the Land of #Israel . The menorah is now kept at Yad Vashem

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6 years

"בחדר הזה מרוכזים כל חיי. פה אני עובד, פה אני אוכל, פה אני משחק עם בתי הקטנה, פה אני מארח חברים. פה אני מבלה 99% מהחיים שלי. אני מכור לעבודה כמו שמישהו מכור לסמים. נורא אוהב את העבודה. כשאני מתנתק ממנה – כעבור יום-יומיים אני מתגעגע" מיקי גורדוס. יהי זכרו ברוך

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2 years

Everyone knew where to find Prof. David Weiss Halivni - he had his own permanent seat in our reading room. All the regulars knew - that chair was Halivni's. Even @yairlapid paid him a visit there.

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3 years

Certified Kosher! This "Kashrut Certificate" found in our collection is from 1795(!) It's signed by Rabbi Ishmael HaKohen of Modena, who certifies that the 12 goat cheeses and 2 cow milk cheeses sold by Yehoshua Diena to Eliezer Levi of Reggio Emilia are in fact kosher 🐐🐮🙌

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3 years

This is a big deal! @NLIsrael 's Franz Kafka Collection is now online for the first time, following an intensive years-long process of conservation and restoration work, cataloging and digitization. You can begin exploring the collection here:

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This image depicting #matzah preparation for #Passover is from a late 19th century Maharathi-Hebrew Haggadah printed in Pune, #India by the Ilkar brothers. Browse through the Haggadah on the @NLIsrael website, here:

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7 years

כי מסר חשוב צריך לכתוב עם ליפסטיק!

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6 years

בעקבות התחממות היחסים, אנא שימו לב לשינויים בלוח השידורים:

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In 1949, Mordechai Ben-Porat was smuggled into Iraq, the land of his birth. Over the next two years, he was arrested and tortured. Yet he survived and helped get 120,000 Iraqi Jews safely to @Israel ... May his memory be a blessing.

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Recognize this @TelAviv street corner? This photo was taken by photographer Moshe Levin in 1947! His color photographs form part of the impressive Meitar Collection, which you can view online at the National Library of Israel

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6 years

דורית הגפרורית מהספר "יהושע הפרוע" מדגימה בצורה חיננית, נגישה ונהירה לילדים למה לא כדאי להדליק 🔥 הלילה.

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Gershom Scholem strikes a typical pose. Photo by Aliza Auerbach, 1974

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These Babylonian bowls from ~1500 yo were used to get rid of demons. Written in #Jewish #Aramaic , the one on the left is one of a small handful that invokes the name of #Jesus to do so.

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הנה שיר טוב של יהונתן גפן: כְּשֶׁאֲנִי לֹא מַצְלִיחַ לְהֵרָדֵם וּמַחֲשָׁבוֹת יוֹצְאוֹת וְנִכְנָסוֹת, אֲנִי יוֹשֵׁב עַל הַמִּטָּה שֶׁלִּי וְסוֹפֵר כְּבָשִׂים (וְלִפְעָמִים גַּם כְּבָשׂוֹת).

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2 years

#OTD 105 years ago, Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas was born! Did you know that he starred in the first Hollywood feature filmed in #Israel ? For more on his (sometimes surprising) connections to Israel and Judaism: @KDouglasMichael

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7 years

"'אתה הרי למדת אנגלית באוניברסיטה', אמרתי, 'כן'. 'אז אתה מדבר אנגלית?'. השבתי, 'נו בוודאי'. 'אז אתה יכול להנחות את האירוויזיון'."

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5 years

"I bought this book on the day of Hitler's death, may his name be obliterated" Gershom Scholem inscribed this Hebrew sentence on the inside cover of a copy of "Sefer HaMidot" by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Today it is part of the Gershom Scholem Collection at the @NLIsrael

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Menachem and Aliza Begin at the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut near Luxor, #Egypt The Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection @NLIsrael Colorization by @MyHeritage

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The Rabbi Sacks Legacy and the National Library of Israel are delighted to announce a significant milestone for both institutions as the personal archive of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks arrives at the Library in Jerusalem. Some 50 cartons containing archival material,…

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#OnThisDay in 1986, human rights activist Natan Sharansky arrived in #Israel after nine years in the Soviet prison system. Video: The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive

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This map of #Jerusalem appears in a book published in Amsterdam in 1657. It displays a view of the city from the Mount of Olives. At the top is a quote in Latin from Ezekiel 5:5- "This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the midst of the nations, and the countries all around her"

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On February 6, 1950, it snowed in @TelAviv - big time! Photo by Rudi Weissenstein, the Photohouse Collection

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We're open. Come visit us! 🇮🇱❤️ Photos: Yoni Kelberman/Tranquilo Productions

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7 years

This week we celebrate the unification of Jerusalem! Catch a glimpse of the first visitors at the Western Wall >>

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The first night of Hanukkah🕎 The Western Wall, Jerusalem, 1969 Photo by IPPA staff, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel

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A new AI-powered project, called MIDRASH, is set to enable full-text searches of tens of thousands of medieval manuscripts.... @NLIsrael is taking part! The manuscript below from around the year 1300 is one of them... Read more here:

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הודעת ראש הממשלה דוד בן גוריון, היום, 5.12, לפני 69 שנים: "אנו רואים חובה להצהיר שירושלים היהודית היא חלק אורגני ובלתי נפרד ממדינת ישראל. ירושלים - היא לב לבה של מדינת ישראל... בירת הנצח של ישראל". שבוע אחר כך הפכה ההודעה מדיבורים למעשים כאשר משרדי הממשלה עברו לירושלים.

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Everyone loves a bookmobile📖🚚😍

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A Jewish shoemaker in Morocco, 1953 The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, at the National Library of Israel

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"We see it our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel and of the soul of our people." Prime Minister David Ben. December 6, 1949. (Picture: Ben Gurion. Jerusalem, 1959. Photo by Fritz Cohen, GPO)

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Recognize #Jerusalem 's Ben-Yehuda Street? This photo was taken on May 8, 1945, following Germany's surrender to the Allies #WWII #VEDay in Jerusalem!

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#Israel 's First Lady Nechama Rivlin has passed away after a long bout with illness. We send our condolences to the family. May her memory be a blessing. Photo: The Rivlins at the Taj Mahal, November, 2016. Mark Neiman, GPO

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Welcome to the very first Pride Parade in Tel Aviv! We hope you have a gay old time! (July 1979) #Pride2017

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Here in Israel, we are used to this, unfortunately. We'll get through it, like always. Our thoughts are with the families of the victims. Photo: Children in a bomb shelter in Kibbutz Gesher during the War of Attrition (1968), by Boris Carmi, the Meitar Collection.

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When Isaac Edward Salkinsohn translated "Romeo and Juliet" into Hebrew in 1878, he called it "Ram and Yael".

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This #SimchatTorah flag was printed in Warsaw in 1902 Note the figure of Theodor Herzl in the foreground, who was at the height of his fame around this time. He is displayed alongside the biblical figures of Moses and Aaron. @NLIsrael collections

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The National Library of Israel is in possession of a number of illustrated Esther scrolls. One of the most special examples is an illustrated manuscript dating from 1616. It was inscribed and illustrated by Moshe ben Avraham Pescarolo in the city of Ferrara in Italy. The work…

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Operation Solomon was carried out in secret Over 36 hours, on May 24th-25th, 1991, more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were brought to #Israel in a series of 35 flights Photo by Gadi Cavallo, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection @NLIsrael

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An initial-word panel for the Kol Nidre prayer featuring decorative dragons and mythical beasts It appears in a Hebrew illuminated manuscript made in Germany in the early 14th century. It can be found at Oxford's Bodleian Library Hatima tova! #YomKippur

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מזל טוב לדוכסית קיימברידג', קייט מידלטון, ולכל משפחת המלוכה הבריטית על הולדת הנסיך! Mazal Tov to the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, and the whole Royal family on the birth if their new prince! #royalbaby #royalbaby3

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מרוב חמידות מחוץ לחלון קשה לנו להתרכז #מחסום_כתיבה

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A crowd gathers around a radio shop on a @TelAviv street to hear news of the war that has just broken out in Europe… This photo was taken on September 1, 1939 by Rudi Weissenstein. The Photohouse Collection

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A moment of peace, at home with the family… Legendary Israeli actor Chaim Topol will celebrate his 87th birthday on Friday!

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Fröhliches #Chanukkah -Fest von der Israelischen Nationalbibliothek! Join us in lighting the 6th #Hanukkah candle in #German , with a booklet printed for Jewish German soldiers in World War I. 8 nights, 8 treasures, 8 languages: @IsraelinGermany

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The children in this photograph are taking a break from planting trees on Tu B’Shvat. The photo was taken in the Land of Israel, all the way back in 1908! It was later colorized and published as a postcard by the Lebanon Company based in Warsaw. Happy #TuBshvat !

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Celebrations in the courtyard of the @JewishAgency building in #Jerusalem , following the @UN General Assembly vote on November 29th, 1947, to approve the partition plan to establish both a Jewish and an Arab state.

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The fragment seen below was once part of a #YomKippur mahzor inscribed nearly a millennium ago. It was copied in the late 11th or early 12th century by a scribe named Hillel Ben Eli, a cantor from Baghdad who immigrated to Egypt and worked as the official scribe of the Cairo…

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Just discovered and now #online for the first time: 18th c. manuscript with details of the first 130 yrs of #Portuguese #Inquisition ... Found in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at @nlisrael

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Look what we found in our collections! This is a translation of Daniel Defoe's classic "Robinson Crusoe" into Judeo-Arabic ( #Arabic written in #Hebrew letters)! Printed by Vazan and Castro Press in Tunis in the early 20th century.

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Preparations for #Sukkot , #Jerusalem , 1955 Eddie Hirschbein, the Bitmuna Collection

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This Hebrew manuscript was inscribed in the Bavarian city of Fürth in the year 1738. It contains prayers relating to the various festivals of the Hebrew calendar. Here we see the words of the Al HaNissim ("On the Miracles") prayer recited on #Hanukkah !🕎 Ms. Yah. Heb. 143

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Recognize this @TelAviv street? Hint: Some of these buildings are still standing! This photograph was taken around 1911-1913. Link to the answer in the next tweet...

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"We who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians, we say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough.” Today #Israel marks 23 years since the assassination of #YitzhakRabin

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Did you know that #Antifa was active as an organization in Mandatory Palestine during the 1930s? The Hebrew flyers below were distributed by local student groups at the time. From the Ephemera Collection at @NLIsrael :

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While #TrumpInIsrael lots of Jerusalem's routes are closed. Can anyone help us navigate through the city with this map? #Jerusalem50

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Happy #Sigd ! This festival, celebrated on the 29th of Cheshvan, symbolizes acceptance of the Torah and the renewal of the covenant with God Sigd originated centuries ago within the Ethiopian Jewish community and in 2008 it was recognized as an official state holiday in #Israel

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"Mr. Shushani's" notebooks have arrived! His true identity remains a mystery, but the handwritten works of the brilliantly enigmatic teacher of Elie Wiesel, Emmanuel Levinas and Shalom Rosenberg will now be open to the public for the first time!

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The #CelebrateIsraelParade in 1969! That year, #Israeli #photographer Yael Rozen was in #NYC and captured the last #CelebrateIsrael festivities of the swinging '60s, just 2 years after the Six-Day War. For more of Yael's photos, check out the link in the thread 👇🏽

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Adolf Eichmann would perhaps never have been captured if it weren't for the man in this grainy photograph, a blind refugee named Lothar Hermann. Hermann was born in Germany to a Jewish father and Christian mother & sent to Dachau in '35 for anti-Nazi activities.

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#TelAviv 's shoreline in 1938 Photo by Rudi Weissenstein, the Photohouse Collection

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Tonight, we’re going to show you something that the world has never seen before. Tonight, we reveal new and conclusive proof of the treasures of Jewish and Israeli culture that have been hiding in the National Libray of Israel #BREAKING #Mossad

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6 years

רק בריאות! (פרסומת משנת 1928)

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8 years

"Live Long and Prosper" is part of the Vulcan Salute, adopted from the Jewish Priestly Blessing. #StarTrek50

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7 years

עשה לי קצת בעיות בחניה במקביל אבל עברתי טסט ראשון!

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6 years

חשיפה! השלב הבא בטכנולוגיית אבטחת המידע

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5 years

The remains of Hannah Szenes, the #Jewish paratrooper and poet who was killed during a daring WWII mission behind enemy lines, finally arrived in #Israel #OnThisDay in 1950, more than 5 years after her death. This rare footage from the Carmel Newsreels captured the somber event

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10 months

Here is a glimpse of a scroll containing a Lurianic "Kabbalistic tree" (Ilan Sefirot) created in Morocco in 1800! Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama.

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2 years

#OTD 24 years ago, the last train left #Jerusalem 's "First Station" 🚂🚃🚃🚃 For years the station stood abandoned, but today it is a popular commercial center where Jerusalemites enjoy restaurants, shops and public entertainment

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"It is a crime to poison the minds of the meek and the humble, to stoke the passions of reactionism and intolerance, by appealing to that odious anti-Semitism that, unchecked, will destroy the freedom-loving France of the Rights of Man." Émile Zola - "J’Accuse" #OnThisDay in 1898

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This ~1000 yo, ~1.5 m long #Byzantine #manuscript includes commentaries on the biblical prophets in #Hebrew and #Greek . It was found in the #Cairo #Geniza . To see the whole scroll:

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Yitzhak Rabin can be seen here on the left, alongside Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, who is reading the paper. Rabin was @IDF Chief of Staff at the time. On the right sits Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, eating an apple. Yitzhak Rabin, a leader in both war and peace, was…

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Children playing on the outskirts of Kibbutz Be'eri, 1975. Be'eri was the site of one of several massacres committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7. We will rebuild! 🇮🇱❤️

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