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.

Jewish astronaut Jeff Hoffman, the first astronaut to read from a Torah in space, presented the high-flying book, which he used on space missions, to the library in Jerusalem.

Scroll of Esther written by a scribe on the Iberian Peninsula around 1465, before the Jews' expulsion, has been acquired by the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.

A 400-foot poster displays 120 years of Zionism at Ben Gurion Airport; KKL-JNF held its first Latin American Youth Leadership Conference in Israel; 102 members of India’s Bnei Menashe community have arrived in Israel, and much more.