Menachem Begin Heritage Center /מרכז מורשת מנחם בגין
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History
The Menachem Begin archive was established in 2000 and operates under the Begin heritage centre law, which was established in 1998.
Records Management and Collecting Policies
The archives collect material relating to the activities of Menachem Begin about his various roles in the public, political, and partisan fields, as well as personal material from the man and his associates.
The archives consist of two parts: the historical archive - the documentation about the activities of Menachem Begin in his life, and the administrative archive of the Begin heritage centre - where materials created during the ongoing work are collected.
archive:
more than 5,000 deposit items, about 300,000 documents stored in about 8,500 bags and a collection of more than 10,000 photographs, the vast majority of which are catalogued and scanned. approximately 1,800 audio-visual items have been recorded from israeli television archives, from stations around the world, a small portion from private collections, as well as documentation from events and conferences held in the early centre over the years. tapes and audio CDs, including speeches and interviews with beginnings from the radio archives and audio recordings of the Bible circle in the Prime Minister's residence. large collection of press cuttings mainly in hebrew and english. more than 1,000 museum exhibits, including Begin's personal belongings, gifts, portrait paintings, etc.
In addition to the personal collection of Menachem Begin, we hold the collections of various personalities who surrounded Menachem Begin in different walks of life, such as Hari Horwitz, Yechiel Kadishi, Yehuda Avner, Yosef Sarlin and Eliyahu Meridor.
There is also the lobby archive for jonathan pollard, which contains various documents, letters, correspondence, press articles and more.
in addition, over the years the archive has conducted a number of oral documentation projects on the life and work of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Eliyahu Meridor, and documenting the lives and deaths of the gallows immigrants.
Opening Times
The archive is open from Sunday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visits by appointment only.
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