28,000 public-domain photos extracted from public and private archives in Israel are now available on Wikimedia Commons, the media sharing platform operated by San Francisco-headquartered nonprofit The Wikimedia Foundation Inc., which also operates Wikipedia. The released photos include images documenting the early days of the Jewish settlement in what later became the state of Israel. […]
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