Independence Hall Museum Review

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Independence Hall Museum

  • Address: 16 Rothschild Blvd., Center City, Tel Aviv
  • Phone: 03/517-3942

Fodor's Review:

This impressive building was originally the home of the city's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff; he donated it to the city in 1930 to be used as Tel Aviv's first art museum. More significantly, the country's leaders assembled here on May 14, 1948, to announce to the world the establishment of the State of Israel. Today the museum's Hall of Declaration stands as it did on that dramatic day, with the original microphones on the long table where the dignitaries sat. Behind the table is a portrait of the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl.

  • Cost: NIS 20
  • Open: Sun.-Fri. 9-2.
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