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The Institute for the Study of the Land of Israel and its Settlement

The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East

Jewish Communities of the East

The Ben-Zvi Institute is the world’s oldest center for research on Sephardic Jews and Jews of Islamic lands.

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The Land of Israel and Its Settlement

Its goal is to advance the study of the history of the Land of Israel and Jerusalem within wider general, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean contexts.

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Here, buried in the earth, lies a bygone era; scholars come and uncover remnants, joining fragment to fragment and shard to shard, until the ancient period rises before our eyes as if alive – can we not also piece together the remnants of a people, until it stands as one body, a living nation that holds its destiny in its own hands?

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Memoirs and Records, Tel Aviv, 1966, pp. 40–42.

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Here, buried in the ground, lies a bygone era; scholars uncover fragments and shards until the ancient period rises before our eyes – can we not also piece together the remnants of a people, until it stands as one living nation shaping its own destiny?

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Memoirs and Records, Tel Aviv, 1966, pp. 40–42.

Yad Ben-Zvi Photo Archive

The archive holds over 100,000 digitized photographs from hundreds of collections, documenting about 150 years of photography in the Land of Israel and worldwide.

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