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 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 Audio Documentation טקסט ראשיOne of the most exciting collection at the IDF and Defense Establishment Archives is the audio collection. Here one may listen to the great moments in history, such as the soldiers' distress in the Yom Kippur War, and the commanders' desperate requests for reinforcement and movement of troops; to the voices of commando (Sayyarot) heroes in debriefings in the wake of the IDF's greatest operations; to the speeches of the nation's great leaders, etc.The audio collection at the IDF and Defense Establishment Archives was established in 1967, following the Six Days War, due to the need to document recorded data, such as briefings, communication networks, debriefings, and drawing of conclusions.The collection – including recordings of communication networks from the Six Days War, The Yom Kippur War, and the Peace of Galilee War; of operational debriefings; General Staff meetings and reviews, interviews, speeches, etc. – is mainly used for research, alongside perusing of transcriptions and subject files. The documentation main sources are the General Staff secretariat, the IDF's history branches, the Teleprocessing Corps, as well as documentation initiated by the archive.The initiated documentation materials include interviews with IDF and Defense Establishment personalities in various subjects such as the establishment of the IDF, the establishment and development of the paratrooper corps, operational testimonials, Jewish combatants in various armies, escape and illegal immigration, saving Jews lives and their immigration to Israel, etc. In addition the collection includes documentation of defense ministers, David Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres, Ezer Weizmann, and Ariel Sharon. There is a special collection of testimonials of pre-state combatants, the War of Independence, up to the Six Days War. The archive stores recordings of programs broadcasted on the Army Radio Station, Galey Zahal, mainly from the 1960's – 1980's. Naturally, most of the collection is classified, by the archive's employees are working on opening the recordings to the public, as well as preserving and digitizing them. As of 2015, the collection contains over 96,000 recordings, out of which more than 200 channels are open to the public.In the archive's reading room, one may listen to recordings and purchase audio pieces for a fee.