This photo is around a hundred years old, National Library of Israel

It displays the reading hall at one of the National Library's former locations - the Beit Ne'eman building on B'nai B'rith Street in Jerusalem. This was the early 1920s.

Back then it was known as the B'nai B'rith Library. 

The National Library was actually founded well before that, in 1892.

From 1925 and until 2008, the institution would become known as the Jewish National and University Library, before eventually being renamed the National Library of Israel.

Photo by Zadok Basan, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel