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The Central Zionist Archives

The Central Zionist Archives
Joseph Herlitz Street Address
Jerusalem 9100002
Israel

Telephone: 02-6204800
Fax: 02-6204837
E-mail: cza@wzo.org.il

Family research related collections:

• A card file and personal records of immigrants

Jewish Agency card files and personal records of candidates for aliyah and of immigrants to Israel / the State of Israel

• Legal immigration

There are three main databases dealing with the legal immigration: immigrant note books, personal records of immigrants and aliyah candidates, and an immigrant card index of the statistics department of the Jewish Agency's Aliyah Department

• Illegal immigration

Lists of passengers who sailed on illegal ships

• Youth Aliyah

The Historical Archives of the Department for the Immigration of Children and Youth

• Cyprus exiles

Archive of the Cyprus exiles' camps between 1947-1949

• Recruitment to the British army

General correspondence files of the Jewish Agency's recruitment and release offices, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa

• Search for relatives

The database and files of the Jewish Agency's Search for Relatives Section

• Commander of Jerusalem

Booklets of the Jewish commander of Jerusalem conducted by the British before the Second World War, September 1939

• Offices in Israel

Card catalogs of the Israeli offices

• Note books

Note books for immigrants to Israel / the State of Israel between the years 1919-1974

• Immigrants' file of the statistics section of the Jewish Agency's Aliyah Department
• Personal archives
• Private archives of personalities who worked for Zionism
• Newspapers and books

Newspapers and periodicals published in Israel, in the State of Israel and abroad, which are made up of genealogies