An installation featuring one chair for each of the hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has been installed in the central book well in the library's modernist new home, seven years in the building.
On each chair is a hostage's portrait, along with a book that "reflects his personality, his hobbies, his connection to his family or occupation", said National Library of Israel director Oren Weinberg.
Home to more than five million books and periodicals and thousands of rare texts, the new facility across from the Knesset... Читать дальше...