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Education with NLI (National Library of Israel) is a core project of Gesher L’Europa, a joint initiative of the National Library of Israel and the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe.

The National Library of Israel houses millions of cultural and traditional treasures that should be shared with educators and learners throughout the Jewish world. In order to enable education systems throughout the Jewish world access to the library’s vast collections, the education team has developed:

 It is dedicated to collecting the cultural treasures of Israel and of Jewish heritage. The National Library owns the world’s largest collections of Hebraica and Judaica and is the repository of many rare and unique manuscripts, books and artifacts including more than 500,000  publications, 12,000 manuscripts, 700 archives, 30,000 hours of recordings, and millions of maps, posters, photographs and much more.

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