Fleeing a Galilean plague, a handful of the Vilna Gaon’s students rewrote the holy city’s history

With his son still on the front lines, philosopher Samuel Hugo Bergman wrote about how the news of victory over the Nazis was received in Jerusalem

How did the only original written copy of “HaTikvah” arrive at the National Library of Israel? And how does it differ from the version we know today?

In July 1943, in the midst of World War II, notable members of the “yishuv” gathered in secret in a Tel Aviv suburb, to proclaim the establishment of a Jewish government in the Land of Israel

Every year on Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, many of us wear the famous Dam HaMaccabim sticker; the connection between the flower and the occasion was made in the early days of the state

A chilling letter found in the National Library archives tells the story of Hadassah Lempel, whose voice was the last one heard during one of the fatal Battles of Latrun in 1948

Finding it hard to get eggs and toilet paper? The coronavirus crisis recalls the early days of the State of Israel, when a policy of austerity was put in place

This is the story of a promising young student who became the “father of microbiology”, but it didn’t happen by accident; a personal tragedy spurred Louis Pasteur to search for cures for infectious diseases

The pandemic known as the Spanish flu spread across the world in the early 20th century, reaching the Land of Israel as well; we took a look back at the news reports of the day

The members of the National Library’s Conservation and Restoration Department make sure they are constantly up to date, even when it concerns the most ancient traditions; recently, they attended a workshop dedicated to the secrets of making Japanese washi paper