Yad Hanadiv
Fact box:
- Founded: 1958 (predecessor PICA / Palestine Jewish Colonization Association founded 1924; ultimate institutional origins in Baron Edmond de Rothschild's late-19th-century pre-state Palestine philanthropic activity)
- HQ: Jerusalem, Israel
- Operating principle: The Rothschild Foundation in Israel
Yad Hanadiv (Hebrew: יד הנדיב — "Hand of the Benefactor") operates as the principal Rothschild family philanthropic foundation in Israel. The institutional history traces to Baron Edmond de Rothschild's late-19th-century pre-state Palestine philanthropic activity, the early-20th-century PICA (Palestine Jewish Colonization Association) operations, and the 1958 establishment of the contemporary Yad Hanadiv institutional structure.
The foundation operates substantial program activity in Israeli civic, academic, and cultural institutional support. Major foundation-supported projects across Yad Hanadiv's institutional history have included the construction of the Knesset building (opened 1966), the Israel Supreme Court building (opened 1992), and the National Library of Israel building (opened 2023), alongside extensive program activity in Israeli higher education, civic infrastructure, and cultural-institutional support.
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