18.04.2011                      14.Nisan, 5771

Geschichte:

A new state-funded project lets photo albums tell the history of the Land of Israel

The project, in which the state has already invested NIS 1.2 million, aims to preserve national heritage by digitizing and archiving hundreds of thousands of photographs.

Photo albums belonging to people who lived in the Land of Israel during the 19th and early 20th centuries will now be used to broaden research efforts into the history of the territory. The state has already invested NIS 1.2 million in this project, which aims to preserve national heritage by digitizing and archiving hundreds of thousands of photographs.
The latest photo album to join this trove, the first documented album in the Land of Israel, was uncovered by Dr. Nirit Shalev-Khalifa, a curator at Jerusalem's Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, during the course of her research….