To Home Page About Contact Information The archive terms of use Declassification Laws and Regulations Data from Personnel Files Information from Subject Files Questions and answers Declassification Criteria Volunteering at the IDFA External Links Pre IDF Archives Price List Documentation types Files The Leaflet and Poster Collection The Audio Visual Documentation The Map collection Publications Photographs The archive library The Audio Documentation Services Scrutiny request Classified materials scrutiny request Archiving materials Request for use / publication / reuse of materials Volunteering Jewish combatant questionnaire Exhibitions David Ben Gurion and the IDF Basic assumption on the eve of the War of Independence The establishment of the IDF The end of The War of Independence The Price of War The Commander's Character The IDF's organization and roles The situation of the army and the security needs What should not be learnt from the Sinai War? The security portfolio was imposed on me… Farewell to the IDF testBigExhib תמונות תערוכה סרטוני תערוכה מסמכי תערוכה The Jewish Combatant Collection Questions and answers Contact us! World War I – General Information World War I – Jewish Soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army World War I – Jewish soldiers if the German Army World War I – Jewish soldiers in the Russian Army World War I – the story of a Jewish soldier – Paul Schoenfeld World War II – the story of a Jewish Soldier – Chaim (Hanush) Afta World War II – the story of a Jewish Soldier – David Hirt World War II – the story of a Jewish soldier – Esther Herlitz World War II – The story of a Jewish soldier – Leon Kopelman Greeting Cards from the Jewish Combatant Collection in the IDFA The Six-Day War Introduction Israel Prepares The "Waiting Period" The National Unity Government Going to war The Israeli Air Force during the war The War Log in the High Command Post Psychological Warfare The Egyptian Front The Jordanian Front The Syrian Front Post War The Price of War The tensions grow The General Staff Deliberations A summary of Rabbi Shlomo Goren's testimony A summary of Yeshayahu Gavish's Uzi Narkis, Central Command Commander David Elazar – commander, Norther Command Chief of Staff, Yitzhak Rabin's Testimony Conscripting troops to the IDF The first disaster in Tyre, Lebanon Operation "Raviv" The Battle of Nitzanim Operation Saucepan 2 The "Night of the Ducks" Night of the Gliders The Intelligence branch papers The Battle of the Beaufort Egypt's President Sadat visit in Israel, November 1977 The Coastal road Massacre From Rudolphina Menzel to Unit "Oketz" – Dogs on Top 1977 Israeli Air Force Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion crash Purim celebrations in the IDF The Maccabiyah Games – a sportive best regards from the fifties Emergency Economy (meshek l'sheat herum or "Melah" for short) From the archive Selected documents Today in the IDF History Recent Catalog search Laws and Regulations טקסט ראשיThe IDF and Defense Establishment Archive is a state archive, subject to the laws of the State of Israel. The following laws influence the archive's work, scrutinizing and usage possibilities.The Archives Law – 1955The Law defines the archive's activity fields and obligations, regarding, inter alia, material archiving, usage and evaluation. The documentation stored in the IDFA was created in the defense establishment, and therefore is subject to the Archives Law, it is classified for 50 years from its creation, unless the depositor sets a shorter limitation schedule. In 1994 the law was amended to allow a scrutiny of classified material at the discretion of the Restricted Materials Scrutinizing Committee.The Archives LawThe archives regulations (scrutinizing archived materials), 2010The archives regulations (destruction of archival matter in state institutions and local authorities) 1986The Privacy Protection Law – 1981 The documentation stored in the archive contains, naturally, personal and private information of Israel's citizens. Subject to the Privacy Protection Law, the IDF and Defense Establishment Archive is obligated to bar any information which might injure the privacy of Israel's citizens, before its declassification. The Privacy Protection LawBasic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty – 1992Section 7 of the law deals with privacy and intimacy: "There shall be no violation of the confidentiality of conversation, or of the writings or records of a person." Therefore the IDF and Defense Establishment Archive removes any information which may injure the privacy of any Israeli citizen, before its declassification. The Basic Law: Human Dignity and LibertyThe Copyright Law – 2007Any usage of documentation in the IDF and Defense Establishment Archive is subject to the copyrights of various authors, photographers, researchers etc. as defined by the law.The Copyright LawThe Freedom of Information Law – 1998The law expresses the public's right to receive information. However, although the law is not effective for archival materials, the IDF and Defense Establishment Archives, as an information supplier, is aware of its duty to pass information to the public, subject to the law and its regulations.In addition to the Freedom of Information Law, a Freedom of information decree was issued, detailing subject about which no information may be supplied for reason of "State Security." The freedom of information lawGeneral Staff OrdersThe IDF and Defense Establishment Archive is working in coordination with the IDF. General Staff Orders 30.0601, 30.0602, 30.0603, 30.0408 regulate the working relations between the IDF and Defense Establishment Archive and military units in everything associated with running the military office, filing, and archiving, as well as with scrutiny regulations of military entities. The General Staff OrdersMinistry of Defense Guidances 2017 The IDF and Defense Establishment Archive is subject to the Ministry of Defense guidances. Guidance 59.140 relates to dealing with scrutiny requests of classified archival matters. Guidance 59.02 related to scrutinizing archival materials open to the public in the IDF and Defense Establishment Archives.