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Access to documents in the Israel State Archives is provided in line with the rules and regulations governing the reading of material deposited in the Archives. The process of declassification focuses first and foremost on record groups containing classified or sensitive documents in the field of defence and foreign affairs. 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.
Read more about the declassification and disclosure work done by the Declassification Department.
Below is a list of the main record groups declassified up till 2008, not including routinely disclosed material:
Government meetings
The Knesset: Sessions of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee
The Prime Minister's Office
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Israel Police
Various government ministries – special units
Private archives
Government meetings
Stenographic records of the meetings of the Provisional Government, May 1948 – March 1949
Stenographic records of meetings, First to Eighth Governments, 1949 – 1959
Stenographic records of meetings of the Tenth Government, November 1961 – June 1963 (the last government headed by David Ben-Gurion).
Stenographic records of Government meetings during April – June 1967 (The Six Day War)
Stenographic records of government sessions may be read in the Archives reading room.
The Knesset: Sessions of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee:
Stenographic records of sessions of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, 1948 – 1949
Stenographic records of sessions of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, 1949 – 1968
Stenographic records of sessions of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, 1973 (including the Yom Kippur War)
Stenographic records of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee may be read in the Archives reading room.
The Prime Minister's Office
The Prime Minister's Bureau, 1948 – 1975
General Archives, 1948 – 1970
The Bureau for Coordination with the Jewish Agency, 1948 – 1960
The Bureau of the Adviser on Arab Affairs 1950 –1975
Government Secretariat: files by subject, 1948 – 1975
The Bureaus of Prime Ministers Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, 1969–1977
The Bureau of Director-General Jacob (Yaakov) Herzog, 1948–1973
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Bureau of the Minister and the Director-General, 1948 –1967
Divisions:
United States Division, 1948 -1956
East European Division, 1948 –1956
West European Division, 1948 – 1956
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 – 1977
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 – 1977
Centre for Records and Documentation (personal archives of senior staff), 1943 – 1973
Israel's Missions Abroad, 1948 – 1975
Senior Staff Archives, 1948 –1977
The Israel Police
National Headquarters and District files, 1948 – 1973.
Various Government Ministries – Special Units
The Ministry of Minorities, 1948 – 1949
The Ministry of Religious Affairs, Christian Communities Department, 1948 – 1968
The Ministry of Religious Affairs, Moslem Religious Affairs Department, 1948 – 1977
The Ministry of the Interior, Minorities Division, 1948 – 1965
The Ministry of Finance, Fuel Administration, 1948 – 1960
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Foreign Trade Division, 1954 – 1959
Personal Archives
The Levi Eshkol archive, 1963 – 1969
The Golda Meir archive, 1925 – 1984 (including declassified material)
The Abba Eban archive (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 1948 – 1977
The Pinhas Sapir archive, 1949 – 1975
The Pinhas Lavon archive (including "The Lavon Affair"), 1951 – 1965
The Dov Yosef archive, 1948 – 1970
The Jacob (Yaakov) Herzog archive, 1948 – 1973
The Reuven Shiloah archive (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 1948 – 1959.
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