The Humanities Division in 2024-2025 brings together 76 members from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including Archeology, Linguistics, Jewish History, Hebrew Language, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Economics, Classics, Religious Studies, Political Science, Jewish Thought, Bible Studies, Law, Literature, Statistics, Psychology and Philosophy.

The Israel Academy and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), Munich, Germany, have established a joint project to prepare critical editions of Hebrew writings from medieval Ashkenaz (i.e., Franco-Germany) communities.

The Silk Roads Forum explores fundamental questions pertaining to long-term cross-cultural interactions in the premodern world and their impact on its history – from the Bronze Age to the early modern period (3500 BC–1750 AD).

In 2023/24, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities established a Forum for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions. The Forum, intended for scholars of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is multi-disciplinary in nature. Its principal purpose is to facilitate the development of innovative approaches to the study of the Abrahamic religions, past and present, from the broadest possible perspective, and from historical, comparative and phenomenological points of view.