About the Library

The Kotar (Reference) Library is an innovative combination of an online library and a digital work environment, and is the result of cooperation with the leading publishers in Israel.The Kotar Library was developed by CET. Its goal is to make the leading academic works (reference books, encyclopedias, journals, etc.) published over the past half century in Hebrew and English, available to school students, teachers, and researchers. Kotar will also serve as a unique portal for accurate, in-depth information on topics ranging from Israel studies to Judaics, Jewish history, humanities, social sciences and more, all within a cutting-edge digital work environment

Collection

Research and reference texts,

among them: The Land of Israel from the Destruction of the Second Temple to the Muslim Conquest, edited by Menachem Stern et al.;

Human Rights in Israel, by Ruth Gavison; Changes in Israeli Society, by S.N. Eisenstadt; One People, One Language – The Revival of the Hebrew Language in an Interdisciplinary Perspective, by Shlomo Carmeli ;

The Mizrahi Struggle in Israel: Oppression and Liberation, Insiders and Outsiders, 1948-2003, by Sami Shalom Chetrit;

The Environment in Israel – Resources, Crises, Campaigns and Policy from the Birth of Zionism until the 21st Century, by Alon Tal.

Philosophy, biography and classic works

Book of Maccabees, the poetry of Shlomo Ibn Gvirol, the Book of Judith, The Thanksgiving Scroll: A Scroll from the Wilderness of Judaea, by Jacob Licht, and the Wars of the Jews, by Josephus Flavius.

Subscription Information

The Kotar Library is a subscription library. Kotar subscribers can view the full content of all titles in the library, including new texts uploaded each month. Visitors who have not subscribed can view a small sample at the beginning of each book.

Kotar subscribers enjoy full search capabilities and a digital work environment which allows them to:

Add notes and comments to texts
Highlight selected passages
Save the markings and notes within chosen texts
Copy text and images from the books on the website to other applications
Print specific pages up to 10 pages
Save their work in a personal folder
Create a personal bookshelf

Visitors may search the library but can only access content that is open to the general public.

Subscriptions are available through the website. Institutional subscriptions for schools, libraries and other organizations are available through Customer Service Center, telephone 03-6460800 or 972 (3) 6200622 or E MAIL sherut@cet.ac.il