Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino (, "National Authority of Ladino") is a national

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i organisation created in 1997 with the goal of preserving and safeguarding

Judaeo-Spanish Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym , Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script: , Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: ), also known as Ladino, is a Romance languages, Romance language derived from Old Spanish language, Old Spanish. Originally spoken in Spain ...

, commonly known as ''Ladino''. The authority was established in the wake of a law passed by the

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...

on 3 March 1996. It publishes the Ladino magazine ''

Aki Yerushalayim ''Aki Yerushalayim'' (; meaning 'Here Jerusalem') is an Israeli magazine in Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino) published in print two to three times a year between 1979 and 2016, and exclusively online since 2019. History ''Aki Yerushalayim'' began releas ...

'' for the

Sephardi Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), ...

community in Israel and the

diaspora A diaspora ( ) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. Historically, the word was used first in reference to the dispersion of Greeks in the Hellenic world, and later Jews after ...

. The first chairman of the board was the fifth president of

Yitzhak Navon Yitzhak Rachamim Navon ( he, יצחק נבון; 9 April 1921 – 6 November 2015) was an Israeli politician, diplomat, playwright, and author. He served as the fifth President of Israel between 1978 and 1983 as a member of the centre-left ...

. The vice-president and editor-in-chief of ''Aki Yerushalayim'' is

Moshe Shaul Moshe Shaul (24 May 1929 – 1 April 2023), also known as Mosheh Sha'ul, was a Turkish-born Israeli journalist, writer and researcher of the culture of Sephardi Jews who worked on preserving the Ladino language. Biography Shaul was born in � ...

. A successor organisation was announced by the

Association of Spanish Language Academies The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language ( es, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, ASALE) is an entity whose end is to work for the unity, integrity, and growth of the Spanish language. It was created in Mexico in 1951 an ...

in 2017.

Objectives

* Propagate the knowledge and awareness of the Judeo-Spanish culture * Helping founding and enriching active Judeo-Spanish cultural institutions * Promoting, encouraging and helping the gathering, documentation and cataloging Judeo-Spanish literature. * Publishing books by contemporary authors who write about Judeo-Spanish topics, either in their original language or

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

. * Organising and promoting activities that can disseminate information about Sephardic communities exterminated in the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

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The official Facebook page of the Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino i su Kultura

Language regulators Judaeo-Spanish Civic and political organizations of Israel Sephardi Jewish culture in Israel 1997 establishments in Israel {{ling-org-stub

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