Jewish National Fund Museum
At the KKL-JNF Museum and Educational center in Tel Aviv, you can watch how the fascinating story of the development of the State of Israel unfolds…
Eliyahu Golomb-Hahagana Museum
Golomb Eliyahu (1893-1945)
Leader of the Jewish defense effort in Palestine and chief architect of the Haganah, the secret military organization for defense of the yishuv between 1920 and 1948.
Lechi Museum-Beit Yair
Museum located in the house where Lekhi commander Avraham Stern (Yair) was murdered by members of the British secret police.
There is a section describing Stern’s life, an exhibition describing the history of the organization, archives, a library and a commemoration hall.
Dizengoff House-Independence Hall
Friday, May 14, 1948, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. At 4 p.m. – eight hours before the termination of the British Mandate in what was then Palestine – the members of the People’s Council and Executive and invited leaders gathered in the museum hall. They listened with emotion as David Ben-Gurion, head of the People’s Council, the Zionist Executive and the Jewish Agency, declared the creation of the State of Israel.
After the reading of the declaration of independence, Rabbi Fishman-Maimon recited the Sheheheyanu (a Jewish blessing of thanksgiving) and members of the People’s Council and Executive signed the scroll. The ceremony concluded with the singing of “Hatikva.”
Ben Gurion House
The house was expanded in 1946, and renovated again in 1960. The house served as the permanent home of Paula and David Ben-Gurion until they settled in Sde Boker. Then it was used as their home, alternately, with their barracks in Sde Boker, until the death of David Ben-Gurion in 1973.
Since 1974, the house has been opened to the public and displays original items that highlight landmarks in the period before the establishment of the state and in the years after, illuminating chapters in the vision and legacy of David Ben-Gurion.
