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The library holds more than 5 million books, and is located in the Government complex (Kiryat HaMemshala) near the Knesset . The National Library owns the world's largest collections of Hebraica and Judaica, [1] and is the repository of many rare and unique manuscripts, books and artifacts.
Sunday-Wednesday – 9am-6pm. Thursday – 2pm-10pm. Fridays and holiday eve – 9am-1pm. More on the Visit. Age: Visits and tours of the Library are suitable for children, adults, and everyone in between, particularly from reading age (7) and up. Visit duration: The tour itself lasts about an hour and a half.
Founded in Jerusalem in 1892, the National Library of Israel (NLI) serves as the vibrant institution of national memory for the Jewish people worldwide and Israelis of all backgrounds and faiths, a dynamic center for scholarship, creativity, and the democratization of knowledge.
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History at the National Library of Israel. Of all the fields of human knowledge, history—describing the sequence of important events which have occured in the past over different cultures, periods and places—is one of the most comprehensive, complex and multibranched.
Home | National Library of Israel, USA. The National Library of Israel (NLI) tells the historical, cultural and intellectual story of the Jewish people worldwide, the State of Israel, and the Land of Israel throughout the ages.
NLI began in 1892 when B’nai B’rith opened the Midrash Abarbanel Library in Jerusalem with a mandate to collect “the treasures of Jewish literature.”
