The new library has a distinctive curved roof shaped like an open book, 11-story structure—with six floors above ground and five below, and opens in late October.

In 2020, Iran threatened to raze the Tomb of Mordechai and Esther and turn the site into a Palestinian consulate.

While his support of Zionism is well-documented and the letter's text was previously known, the original signed copy has only now been rediscovered, over a century after it was written.

The project is considered 'complex' and will take two years.

Israel's National Library dedicated a unique exhibit of a variety of Islamic texts to mark the Muslim month of Ramadan.

Putin gifted Netanyahu with the first copy of the bible ever printed with commentary by Rashi, one of the most influential Jewish sages.

Remnants of one of the oldest surviving Passover haggadahs in the world, which was discovered in the Cairo Genizah, are currently on display as part of an exhibit at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. The haggadah, hand-scribed on parchment, dates from the 12th century CE.

The Eran Laor Cartographic Collection is a physical and virtual collection of maps, the heart of which comprises ancient maps, atlases and travel books to the Holy Land and as such, it is the largest of its kind in the world.

A new online undertaking will enable anyone searching for access to ancient Jewish manuscripts to do so at the click of a mouse.

A rare 1,000-year-old ketubah testifies to the presence of a Jewish community in 11th century Safed.

The National Library of Israel plans to digitize a collection of documents that belonged to the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust in the Vilna Ghetto.