Digitization of the Knesset

Archives

Dr. Rivka Markus - Head Archivist of the KnessetInda Novominsky – Deputy Records Manager

Systematic Documentation of the

Parliamentary Records

May 4, 1948

Systematic Documentation of the

Parliamentary Records

May 4, 1948

Opening Sitting of the Provisional People

Council

May 4, 1948

HistoricalArchive

Administrative Archive

1. Plenary Proceedings

2. Committee Proceedings

3. Legislative Portfolio

1. Thematic Files: Motions for the Agenda, Initiated

debates, N0-comfidence Motions, Questions to the

Ministers, Electronic Voting

2. Audio and Video recordings from the sessions in the

Plenum and the Committees

3. Publications Collection

4. Photo Collection

5. Special documents Collection

1. 2.5 Millions of documents in 30.000 physical files

2. A Million of documents bound in volumes of

Divrei Haknesset, Laws books and protocols of

the Committees

3. About 15.000 pictures

4. More than 1.000 publications

5. About a million of scanned documents

6. Thousands of digital documents

1948-1980: Manual System

1980-1999: Mainframe Computer

1999-onward: www.knesset.gov.il

2003- onward: New database,

new Operational System

2014 – update of the

Operational System

A long term project started in the last

decade

All the main parliamentary

documented from 1948 until 1999 had

been scanned and are searchable in

digital assets

Priority to the main parliamentary

documents

Priority to the material that doesn’t

exist in any digital form

Full meta data for each document

Full OCR with proofreading

Priority to the main parliamentary

documents

Priority to the material that doesn’t

exist in any digital form

Full meta data for each document

Full OCR with proofreading

Third Knesset, N˚79

February 15, 1956

Sitting N˚ and

Knesset N˚

Date, hour, place

Page N˚

Speakers

Subject –

Parliamentary

Instrument

The original hammer that was

in use in the Opening of the

First Knesset

Original Law

1th Amendment

2nd Amendment

42th Amendment

4thAmendment

3rd Amendment

Consumer Protection Law (amendment 42), 2014

1. Bills in process

2. Secondary Legislation

3. Current version of the law

Opening Ceremony of the Knesset Building 30/8/1966

1. 600 DPI

2. Two formats: Jpeg

Tiff

3. Typing of meta data to excel

4. Acid free envelopes with nonadhesive flaps

for long preservation

Inside the Knesset:

Inside the Knesset:

The Knesset Museum at Beit Frumin

Outside the Knesset:

Independence Hall

Outside the Knesset:

Eden Hotel in Jerusalem

Finance Committee of the First Knesset – Berl Reptor Socialist Party

Photo Credit: Information Center of Israel

Setting of the Provisional State Council – September 1949 –

Photo Credit: Rudi Waisenstein

Snow in Jerusalem – Winter 1957 - Photo Credit: Fritz Schlezinger

People waiting for the Second President of Israel, Itzhak Ben Zvi – 10/12/1952

Photo credit: Yehuda Eisenstark

Security Committee Tour in a Military Base -

Prime Minister Menahem Begin.

December 1977. Photo Credit: IDF

Security Committee Tour in Suez Canal – 22/6/1972

חנוך גוטמן: צילום

מ"לע: צילום

Egypt President Anwar Sadat visit the

Knesset – November, 1977

Opening Ceremony of the Knesset Building 30/8/1966

Thanks for your attention

Inda Novominsky – Deputy Records Manager – Knesset Archives

indan@Knesset.gov.il972-2-6753802