To commemorate the 75th anniversary since the establishment of Israel’s colonial enterprise, the National Library of Israel has embarked upon a new project themed “Operation Diary: the Founding Generation for Israel’s 75th”. The project, which is being carried out in collaboration with Israel Hayom, seeks personal diaries of 1948 written by “the men and women of the nation’s founding generation with the aim of creating a unique historical collection”. Meanwhile, as Haaretz reported in 2019, Israel’s Defence Ministry is keen to keep many details from 1948 away from public scrutiny, including documents that had already been previously declassified. According to the former director of Malmab, the Israeli Defence Ministry’s secretive security department, removing documentation had one objective: “to undermine the … Continue reading Memory and oblivion in Israel