US foundation digs deep to fund Israel’s archaeology library
The Mandel National Library and Archives is part of a $80m campus dedicated to the field.
Israel will soon have the largest archaeological library in the Middle East, thanks to a gift from the Cleveland-based Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation.
The library is part of the $80m Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel, currently under construction near the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, which will eventually house
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more than two million artefacts and 15,000 fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The archaeology campus, designed by the Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie and scheduled to be completed in April 2016, has been primarily funded by private donors in the US, Europe and Israel.
Covering an area of 35,000 sq. m, it will include an education center, an auditorium, exhibition galleries, and rooftop gardens, and will serve as the headquarters of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), according to a press release.
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