Yaacov Lozowick

The Israeli state archives in Jerusalem on September 03, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
More than 100 files from the 1800s are still classified in Israel’s archives
Israel recently published its catalogue of some 300,000 classified files, including thousands of documents from before the state was even founded. The very existence of the files had been kept a secret until recently. By Asaf Shalev Israel’s State Archives unceremoniously published the contents of its catalog of classified archive documents this past summer, posting…
By +972 Magazine February 15, 2019
Israeli soldiers show an order for a closed military zone to a cameraman on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, November 15, 2012. (by: Oren Ziv/Activesillts.org)
IDF Censor redacted 2,358 news articles last year
While the number of articles submitted to the IDF Censor decreased in 2017, the percentage of articles that it fully or partially redacted went up. Israel’s Military Censor outright prohibited the publication of 271 articles in 2017, more than five a week, and partially or fully redacted a total of 2,358 news items submitted to it…
By Haggai Matar July 4, 2018
Illustrative photo of archived documents. (Shutterstock.com)
Israel’s state archivist opens up about censorship, digitization
Israel’s state archivist confirms that nearly half a million pages have been sent to the IDF Censor, which has redacted historical documents that already saw the light of day, and talks about why he didn’t foresee the storm that erupted over his decision to end access to paper documents. Israel’s state archivist did not foresee…
By Haggai Matar April 13, 2016
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Illustrative photo of the digitization of archives. (Lilyana Vynogradova / Shutterstock.com)
The end of history at Israel’s state archives?
As part of a welcome digitization process, the Israel State Archives will soon revoke access to original paper documents, and the documents it puts online will be subject to military censorship. But academics and civil liberties groups are fighting back. (Correction appended below) Israel’s State Archives (ISA) will no longer give researchers and the public…
By Haggai Matar April 12, 2016
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