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 Request a meeting at the archive Volunteering Jewish combatant questionnaire Requesting a tour 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 archive library טקסט ראשיBooks:The Archive military and defense library focuses on the IDF and the defense establishment. It serves archive employees and visitors to the reading room. The library functions as a closed stacks collection: after ordering a book in the computerized catalog, one may scrutinize it in the reading room. There is no landing of books outside the archive.Memorial Literature:The archive contains a collection of memorial literature dedicated to the IDF fallen, and other dead of Israel campaigns. Its uniqueness lies in containing memorial books of all corps' and eras, dedicated to study and research.The memorial book collection is periodically enriched by publications received from families and friends of the fallen. Any contribution to the collection is welcomed. One may deliver the publications by mail to: the IDF & Defense Establishment Archives, Ministry of Defense, Hakirya, 6473424 Tel-Aviv, IsraelJournals:The IDF & Defense Establishment Archives stored copies of the military journals: "BaMahane," "BaMahane Nahal," "BaMahane Gadna," etc.