The inaugural exhibition, Encounters of Beauty: Hebrew Manuscripts from the Braginsky Collection and the National Library of Israel was open from April until September 2024; and in December 2024, NLI opened Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author, marking 100 years since Franz Kafka’s death and showcasing singular archival items from NLI's world-leading Kafka collection.
Exhibitions planned for 2025 include: A Journey to the Hajj; Flowers: Leafing Through the Collections of the National Library; and Hadassa Goldvicht: To the Internal Libraries.
Time and time again, visitors have expressed that the Library is a place where they can breathe, heal, let down their guard, and take refuge from the turbulence of the outside world.
Activities and Reach Over 550,000 people visited and made use of the Library in 2024
7,500 educators trained through
17,500 participants in 2024 summer cultural programs
3,600 tour groups through the Visitor Center (2024)
the Israel National Center for Humanities Education (2023-24)
18,000 school students in humanities enrichment and reading programs (2023-2024)
280,000 visitors in 2024 through the Visitor Center
50 guides in various languages
Library Services
190,000 queries handled in 2024, of which 70,000 were reference queries
135,000 registered readers 200,000 books and materials ordered from the stacks (2024)
240,000 readers in the reading halls (2024)
400 staff members
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