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 Photographs טקסט ראשיIn his book "How the fortress was captured, Brigadier General Yitzhak Sade wrote: "Some people on the battlefield are armed with cameras." And indeed, with the establishment of the IDF, a photography company was established in the "Maps and Photography Service." Some of those who served in the company won fame later as first class photographers, among them Boris Carmi, Yitzhak Mirlyn, and others. These photographers accompanied the IDF units in the battles of the War of Independence, and documented the period.At the same time, BaMahane, the IDF's weekly magazine, also recruited photographers, to document various unit for the magazine articles. Boris Carmi was the magazine's first permanent photographer, who was later joined by Avraham Vered, who gained fame as sole photographer of the paratroopers' operations from the early 1950's until the Sinai War (1956). Micha Bar Am, Micky Zarfati, Avi Simchoni and others continued to document various security events and the period's folklore in the IDF and the defense establishment. BaMahane's pictures collection constitutes a considerable part of the Archive of the IDF and the Security Establishment's photography collection. Other collections arrived from the editorial boards of "BaMahane Nahal," BaMahane Gadna," "Aley Yam," etc.In addition, the Archive of the IDF and the Security Establishment purchased the collections of Yehuda Eizenstark, who photographed Jerusalem and its environs from 1947 to the early 1950's; Fred Chesnik, who documented various aspects of Israel's society in the 1950's, for example, immigration, and absorption of immigrants; and of Arie (Arthur) Rosman, who took class photos in various IDF courses. In 2010, the photography collection of The IDF Spokesperson's Unit Filming Unit was transferred to the Archive of the IDF and the Security Establishment, considerably enriching the photography collection. There are 2,700,000 photographs in the collection, and it is open to queries with the following parameters: subjects; personalities; places; dates; photographers etc.The Archive of the IDF and the Security Establishment allows use for a fee of photographs, of which it owns the copyrights (to the price list). You may search photographs in the catalog.