On Sunday, October 23, the Government of Israel approved an initiative by the construction minister and the minister for Jerusalem affairs for the creation of the Albert Einstein museum in Jerusalem at Jewish University. Following that the decision Jerusalem minister Ze’ev Elkin visited the university at the opening of the school year and toured the personal archive of Albert Einstein conserved at the university which will become the foundation for the future museum.

The decision to create the museum adopted at the weekly sitting of the cabinet includes the construction of a unique building on the university’s Givat Ram campus where the complete Einstein archive will be housed. The archive will be made available to the public including digitized documents on-line.

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