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 The Jewish Combatant Collection טקסט ראשיThe Jewish Combatant Collection, in the World Armies and Undergrounds was established by David Ben Gurion – first Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Israel – directive to establish the Archive of the IDF and the Security Establishment. In his instruction to the archive manager, on December 19, 1948, Ben Gurion Wrote: "The army's archive will draw materials not only from the IDF and its predecessors in Israel (the defense of Jewish settlements since the establishment of Petah-Tiqvah, Ha'shomer, the Jewish Legion, the Haganah and all its branches), but on the history of Jewish self-defense in the Diaspora, the participation of Jews in national and international liberation wars, and on Jewish participation in developing military art and technics."Following years-long efforts, the Archive of the IDF and the Security Establishment stores a collection, rare in its scope and quality, documenting the roles and contributions of Jews in military activities all around the world, in warfare, in local conflicts, in wars of independence and in struggles of resistance movements, as well as in defense research and development. The collection includes over 80,000 files, containing, inter alia, documents (original and copies) created from the mid-19th century to the present, documenting the service of Jews in armies worldwide, immediately following the Jewish Emancipation. Alongside the subject files, the collection contains 3,000 photographs, personal journals and notes, badges, medals, memoirs, maps, newspaper clips, books, researches, articles and booklets in Hebrew, English, Russian, etc., displays, video cassettes and compact disks. All these are testifying to Jewish involvement in armies and defense systems all around the world, and to their many contributions therein. The collection is intended for the use of academics and researchers, school children, students, soldiers and the public interested in that important aspect of Jewish history. To the exhibition