The French Library holds approximately thirty thousand titles, most of them in French. It is rich in reference works, research materials, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and journals in various fields. Alongside renowned classical authors of French literature—such as Simone de Beauvoir, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, and many others—you will also find works by contemporary French writers, including Michel Houellebecq, Fred Vargas, Georges Simenon, Patrick Modiano, and more. In addition, the library maintains a large and varied collection of graphic novels.

Beyond ongoing acquisitions of books, journals, and media items, the library has received donations of private collections containing rare items. The French Library is the largest of its kind in the Middle East. It also houses an extensive audiovisual collection in French, accessible to students of the department and university researchers.

The Translation and Interpreting Studies Libraryis a unique resource in Israel. Its foundations were built upon the estates of renowned interpreters who taught in the department since its earliest days. The collection also includes books on translation studies from the estate of the late Professor Miriam Shlesinger, who taught at the university from 1978 to 2012 and served as Head of the Department from 2004 to 2007.

The library offers a rich array of resources in translation studies, discourse analysis, and pragmatics, including books, journals, dictionaries, and theses and dissertations by department graduates—both in print and online.

The Department of Arabic maintains a rich and diverse collection of books covering a broad spectrum of subjects related to Arabic and Islam. The collection includes Qur’an commentaries, Hadith compilations and commentaries, biographical anthologies, chronicles, classical poetry collections, works on jurisprudence and theology, and various genres of classical and modern Arabic literature. Additionally, the collection features a wide range of dictionaries, encyclopedias, concordances, grammar books, Judeo-Arabic texts, and journals.

The Library for Asian Studies comprises books on the culture, history, literature, and religions of Japan, China, Korea, and India. It is rich and up-to-date, expanding through frequent acquisitions and significant donations from the Korea Foundation, the Embassy of India, and others. The collection serves students and researchers from the department as well as from other departments on campus who are interested in or engaged in Asian Studies. Among the books, you will also find language textbooks and dictionaries for the various languages.