Facilities and services
The Beit Ariela Library includes a reading hall, a lending department, and several special libraries. The Library includes more than half a million books in different languages (Hebrew, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish). The Library provides its visitors access to databases in various fields of knowledge (in Hebrew and in English); registered borrowers may use this service from their homes. Besides the collections of books the Library possesses journals, newspapers, video recordings, photographs; the collection of musical CDs accounts about 8000. The Library subscribes to 180 different periodicals; there are about 9 thousand registered borrowers. The Library network throughout the City contains more than 21 branches and has around 37,201 (2018) active members.
Music Library, (2013)
Information and Reference Library, (2013)
Lending Department, (2013)
The book cover Avodat ha-Leṿi, (1546) from Rambam library
The cover of the book Avak Sofrim, (1704) from Rambam library
Special departments
- Periodicals Library – a collection of Hebrew press from the end of the 19th century and up to the present day. Most periodicals are also available on microfilm.
- Ahad Ha'am Library – holds rare and unique publications on education, the history of Israel, Diaspora communities, as well as Hebrew literature, books on arts, Passover Hagadas and a collection of publications with dedications.
- Rambam (Maimonides) Library – religious scientific library that provides about 100 thousand books and different computer databases.
- Design and Visual Information Library – collection of visual information on different subjects. The Collection contains more than half a million photos, pictures, postcards, reproductions, caricatures, leaflets, brochures, catalogs – which are subdivided into three categories: Personalities, Countries, and Themes.
- Israel Dance Archive and Library – the central library in Israel for storage of information on dance history. More than 2000 folders with archive documents, over 8000 books, as well as journals, video recordings and other media on the subject: "The history of Israeli and Foreign Dance" - from the beginning of the 20th century and up to today.
- Theatre Library – alongside a large number of plays, the Library contains the Theatre Archive, named after Yehuda Gabai. The archive is a large collection of documentary materials on the history of Israeli and Hebrew theatre. The archive comprises posters, programmes from performances, mock-ups of scenery, and personal archives of outstanding theatre figures.
Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg, primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am, was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of cultural Zionism. With his secular vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in Israel, he confronted Theodor Herzl. Unlike Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, Ha'am strived for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews".
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionist leader and the longest-serving President of Israel.
Hayim Nahman Bialik, also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. He was part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice to the breath of new life in Jewish life. Being a noted essayist and story-teller, Bialik also translated major works from European languages. Although he died before Israel became a state, Bialik ultimately came to be recognized as Israel's national poet.
The Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, originally known as HaGymnasia HaIvrit is a historic high school in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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This article deals in more detail with some of the notable synagogues of Jerusalem that do not have their own page as yet.
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Gerard Behar Center is a major arts centre in Jerusalem, Israel, for independent theatre, dance, and musical productions, children's shows, art exhibitions, artist workshops, and festivals. In 2010 the center hosted over 900 events with attendance in excess of 263,600 participants. The center includes two theatres and is home to two dance companies, Kolben and Vertigo.
Naomi Frankel, also spelled Fraenkel and Frenkel, was a German-Israeli novelist. Born in Berlin, she was evacuated to Mandatory Palestine with other German-Jewish children in 1933. She became a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa, where she lived until 1970. She began writing novels in 1956 and achieved fame with her trilogy Shaul ve-Yohannah, a three-generational tale of an assimilated German-Jewish family in prewar Germany. She wrote four other novels for adults as well as several books for children. In the 1980s Frankel abandoned her leftist convictions and adopted right-wing ideology, settling in the West Bank, where she died in 2009, aged 91.
Gnazim Archive of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel is the largest Hebrew literature archive in the world. It is located in Beit Ariela.
Yehudit Harari was an educator, teacher, kindergarten teacher, and writer, one of the founders of Tel Aviv. She was one of the founders of the "Hebrew Stage Enthusiasts Association" and a member of the Habimah Theater council, winner of the honorary prize for education of the Tel Aviv Municipality in 1965.
Nahalat Binyamin (Hebrew: נחלת בנימין, also spelled Nachalat, Nachlat, and Nahlat Binyamin, is a partially car-free street and a neighbourhood in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Music Library, (2013)
Information and Reference Library, (2013)
Lending Department, (2013)
The book cover Avodat ha-Leṿi, (1546) from Rambam library
The cover of the book Avak Sofrim, (1704) from Rambam library
