Tel Aviv, March 9 -- The State Archives of Israel on Sunday presented the 50 millionth page uploaded to the State Archives' website, demonstrating what it called "a significant achievement in the process of digitizing and making historical materials accessible to the general public."

The 50 millionth page is part of a "fascinating collection" of issues of the "Official Gazette" of the Government of Palestine (PA) during the British Mandate period, which includes approximately 700 files.

For about a decade, the State Archives has been working diligently to scan the documents and make them accessible to the public through its website. To date, about a quarter of a billion pages have been scanned, of which, as mentioned, 50 million are now...