The cover of Cathedra No. 96, of July 2000
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The cover of the offprint of Cathedra No. 105, of September 2002
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The original plan of the architects A. Mansfeld and M. Weinraub for the Government Complex in Giv’at Ram, which won the 1950 contest
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The Knesset building site in 1961 looking southwards, with two giant cranes, and the track on which they moved. Photographer: Bill Gillitt
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The architectural plan for the Committee floor, 1962
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The external wall with the columns, as constructed
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A model of the columns as originally planned. Photographer: Bill Gillitt
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A model of the gallery for visitors, planned for the Chagall Hall. Photographer: Bill Gillitt
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Two efforts to cut words on stone for the plenary hall. Photographer: Susan Hattis Rolef
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The staircase going up from the cafeteria in the Baker building at MIT, planned by Alvar Alto
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The staircase connecting the Government floor with the Committee floor
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The "pool" of the library reading hall, whose design was influenced by Alvar Alto’s library in Viipuri
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The ceramic wall by Chava Kaufman. Photographer: Eliezer Segal
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One of the Weil gates. Photographer: Eliezer Segal
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Meeting corner in the Knesset Speaker’s bureau, designed by Dora Gad. Photographer: Eliezer Segal
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The inner dining room for MKs, designed by Dora Gad. Photographer: Eliezer Segal
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A model of the original plan for the plenary hall, with the President’s balcony on the left. Photographer: Bill Gillitt
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A model of the original plan for the plenary hall: a view in the direction of the galleries, without a partition, and with hanging ceiling. Photographe: Bill Gillitt
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The Knesset building. 1966
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The inauguration of the Knesset building (August 30, 1966)
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The Knesset building before its completion, in October 1964
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The U.S. Embassy building in Athens, planned by Walter Gropius
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The podium in the plenary hall, and the wall designed by Danny Karavan
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The Knesset as seen through the Palombo gate
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The Chagall Hall: Chagall’s tapestries and the "chocolate bar" ceiling
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The Altes Museum, designed by Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin
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The model of the Second Temple, at the Holyland Hotel in Jerusalem
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The temple constructed by the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut in Deir El-Bahri in Egypt
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A carbon drawing of the model of the Knesset building, prepared by Klarwein for the competition in 1957
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A carbon drawing of the model of the Knesset building, prepared by Klarwein for the competition in 1957
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The model of the Knesset building, presented by Klarwein for the competition, 1957
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The model of the Knesset building by Karmi and Gillitt, 1961
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A current map sketched on the basis of an original map of the Government complex, September 1950
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"The scandal of the Knesset building", headline in the Ha’olam Hazeh weekly of August 7, 1957; in that article there are photos of some of the models presented in the competition
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The architect Joseph Klarwein, and the model he presented in the competition (July 1957)
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Aerial photograph of the Government complex in 1997
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Reception held by Menachem Begin for U.S. President Jimmy Carter in the Chagall Hall (March 12, 1979)
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The Knesset plenum (November 21, 1988). The "guillotines" can be seen clearly above the gallery
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The Government meeting room in the Knesset building
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A meeting in the Government meeting room, chaired by P.M. Golda Meir (March 17, 1969)
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Knesset Committee room, view from the outside. Photographer: Susan Hattis Rolef
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Meeting in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee room (March 23, 1989)
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The Knesset House Committee room: view from the inside
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The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee room: view from the inside
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The model of the Knesset building by Klarwein and Powsner, 1959
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The first model of the Knesset building by Karmi and Gillitt, 1960
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The Ataturk Mausoleum in Ankara
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The postcard sent by Gad Asher from Helsinki, depicting the Finnish parliament
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The architect Richard Kaufmann
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One of the Herzl pictures in the Knesset building: an oil painting by Baron Joseph Arpad Koppay von Dretoma
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Boris Schatz, self-portrait, Schatz Fund
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Marc Chagall supervising the creation of the center tapestry
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David Palombo working on the Knesset gates. Photographer: Werner Braun
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Reuven Rubin painting the picture for the Government meeting room in the Knesset. Israel Zafrir ©, provided by the Jerusalem Post archive
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The Knesset building plan with the ramp connecting the Knesset foreground with the road
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The Knesset cornerstone
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Work on the Knesset building before the roof was cast. Photographer: Hans Ruegg
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The concrete factory, and one of the two cranes on the Knesset building site. Photograph: Bill Gillitt
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Chava Kaufman making color corrections on the tiles of the ceramic wall in the cafeteria. 1966
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The Knesset building site. The cement factory is on the left.
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Construction of the stairs between the first and second floor, and between the second and third floor. Photographer: Bill Gillitt
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Klarwein’s and Powsner’s plan of 1959. The building is situated on the northern edge of the compound, and the entrance into the building is on the South
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The architect Richard Kaufmann
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The architect Heinz Rau
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The architect Dov Karmi
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The architect Al Mansfeld
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The architect David Anatol Brutzkus
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The architect Avraham Yaski
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Mrs. Dorothy de-Rothschild with Knesset Speaker, Kadish Luz, August 30, 1966
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MK Max Nurock at the ceremony for the laying down of the cornerstone of the Knesset building. Behind, the President of the State, the Speaker of the Knesset, and Mrs. Dorothy de-Rothschild
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The synagogue designed by architect David Cassuto
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The front wall of the plenary hall, designed by Danny Karavan. Photographer: Daniel Goldberg
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Dora Gad and Marc Chagall
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Work on the wall mosaic by Chagall
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The Palombo gate at the entrance to the Knesset compound
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The Tribes’ (Weil) Gate at the entrance to the Knesset building
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The final plan of the building towards the completion of the construction
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Model of the Government complex and the Knesset building of 1966
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The ceiling of the Chagall Hall, and the Ben-Shmuel relief
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