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The National Library of Israel (NLI) is home to the intellectual and cultural treasures of the Jewish people, the State of Israel and its region throughout the ages.
Diaspora
Imre Lichtenfeld developed Krav Maga as a method of defensive street fighting against anti-Semitic attacks in the city formerly known as Pressburg.
Land of Israel
Nathan Fendrich, a Jewish-American photojournalist, happened to be in Israel when the Yom Kippur War broke out. He grabbed his camera and headed for the front. But who are the soldiers who appear in his photographs? Can you help identify them?
Judaism
This 500-year old map that depicts the destruction of the Temple as witnessed by Christians is a rare find.
Yehiel De-Nur felt that “Yehiel Feiner” was destroyed in the Holocaust, and so he wished to destroy the book he published before the Holocaust
Diaspora, Land of Israel
The letter addressed to her brother George was written in English to ensure it would pass through the British military censors.
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