Access to documents in the Israel State Archives is provided according to the rules and regulations governing the reading of material deposited in the Archives. Archival documents from government agencies or local authorities which are of low sensitivity are routinely disclosed to the public at the end of the period prescribed in the regulations. The process of declassification focuses first and foremost on record groups containing classified or sensitive documents in the field of defence and foreign affairs. Read more about the declassification and disclosure work done by the Declassification Department.

See here for an updated list of the main record groups declassified up to January 2013, not including routinely disclosed material:

Government meetings
Ministerial committees
The Knesset: Sessions of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee
Prime Minister's Office
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Government ministries – various units
Israel Police
Private archives
Collections of abandoned Arab documents
Oral history collections

Government meetings

• Stenographic records of the meetings of the Provisional Government, May 1948 – March 1949
• Stenographic records of meetings, First to Eleventh Governments, 1949 – 1964
• Stenographic records of Government meetings during April – June 1967 (The Six Day War)
  
  Bound copies of the stenographic records of government meetings until 1959 are available in the Archives reading room. Later material must be ordered.
  
  Ministerial committees
• Stenographic records of the Government Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defence, 1948-1958
• Stenographic records of the Government Committee for Economic Affairs, 1970-1976
  
  Knesset: Sessions of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee
• Stenographic records of sessions of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Defence Committee, 1948 – 1949
• Stenographic records of sessions of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, 1949 – March 1971
• Stenographic records of sessions of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, 1973 (including the Yom Kippur War)
  
  Prime Minister's Office
• Prime Minister's Bureau, 1948 – 1984
• Director-General's Bureau, 1948–1986
• General Archives, 1948 – 1975
• Government Secretariat: files by subject, 1948 – 1979
• Bureau for Coordination with the Jewish Agency, 1948 – 1960
• Bureau of the Adviser on Arab Affairs, 1950 –1979
  
  Deputy Prime Minister's Bureau
• Abba Eban, 1959-1966
• Yigael Yadin,1977-1981
• Simcha Ehrlich, 1977-1981
  
  Bureaux of Ministers without Portfolio
• Peretz Naftali, 1955-1959
• Israel Galili, 1963-1977
• Gideon Hausner, 1964-1977
• Joseph Sapir, 1967-1969
• Menachem Begin, 1967-1970
• Aryeh Dultzin, 1969-1970 
• Shulamit Aloni, 1974
• Haim Landau, 1976-1979
  
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Bureau of the Minister and the Director General, 1948 –1985
  
  General Archives, 1947-1978 Divisions:
• North American Division, 1948 -1984
• East European Division, 1948 –1956
• West European Division, 1948 – 1956
• European Division, 1962-1987
• Middle East Division, 1948 - 1967
• Latin American Division, 1948 – 1956
• Asian and African Division, 1948 – 1956
• British Commonwealth Division, 1948 – 1956
• Armistice Division, 1948 – 1967
• Division of International Organizations, 1948 – 1979
• International Cooperation Division, 1948 – 1975
• Economic Division, 1948 – 1970
• Legal Division, 1948 – 1962
• Consular Division, 1949 – 1969
• Communication Section and Cables (Coded Telegrams), 1948 – 1968
• Political Material, 1957 – 1979
• Centre for Records and Documentation (personal archives of senior staff), 1943 – 1973
• Israel's Missions Abroad, 1948 – 1980
• Senior Staff Archives, 1948 –1977
  
  Government Ministries – various units
• Ministry of Minorities, 1948 – 1949
• Ministry of Religious Affairs, Christian
  Communities Department, 1948 – 1979
• Ministry of Religious Affairs, Moslem Religious Affairs Department, 1948 – 1979
• Ministry of the Interior, Minorities Division, 1948 – 1965
• Ministry of Finance, Fuel Administration, 1948 – 1960
• Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Foreign Trade Division, 1954 – 1959
• Ministry of Police, Bureau of the Minister, 1948-1963
  
  Israel Police
• National Headquarters and District files, 1948 – 1973.
  
  Private archives
  (Containing both personal papers and records from the public activities and official positions of the donor)
  
  
• Levi Eshkol, 1963 – 1969
• Golda Meir, 1925 – 1984
• Abba Eban, (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 1948 – 1977
• Pinhas Sapir, 1949 – 1975
• Pinhas Lavon (including "The Lavon Affair"), 1951 – 1965
• Dov Yosef (Bernard Joseph), 1948 – 1975
• Yaakov Herzog, 1948 – 1973
• Reuven Shiloah (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 1948 – 1959.
• Yigael Yadin, 1951-1979
• Amnon Rubinstein, 1976-1978
• Zalman Shazar (Rubashov), 1938-1974
• Teddy Kollek, 1952-1973
• Asher Levitzky, 1922-1959
• Leo Kohn, 1912-1960
• Arieh Simon, 1949-1955
  
  Collections of abandoned Arab documents
• Government of Jordan, Offices and district administrations in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), 1947-1967
• Government of Egypt, Administration in the Gaza Strip, 1957-1967
  
  Oral history collections (Davis Institute)
• Interviews with public figures, heads of the defence establishment and the IDF