Ben Gurion House

Ben Gurion House (2009)

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The Ben Gurion House ( Hebrew בֵּית בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן Bejt Ben-Gūrjōn , English Ben-Gurion House ) in Tel Aviv-Jaffa is the former home of David Ben-Gurion , Israel's first Prime Minister (1948–1954). Today the building is used as an education and research center and houses u. a. a museum and the extensive library of Ben-Gurion.

The Ben Gurion House was built in 1930–1931 based on a design by the architect David Tuvia on a site owned by the Jewish National Fund and - as was common in working-class neighborhoods at the time - had only one room. In 1946 the house was expanded and renovated in 1960.

The building was inhabited for a long time by Ben-Gurion and his family, next to an estate in the Negev desert ( Tzrif Ben Gurion ) and his official residence in Jerusalem (Beit Julius Jacobs). Before his death in 1973, he bequeathed the house to the State of Israel with the desire to use it as an education and research center. The building, which has hardly changed, has been open to the public since November 29, 1974. In 1976 the Knesset passed the David Ben-Gurion Law , which u. a. regulates the further use of the house in the sense of Ben-Gurion by law. In addition, after Ben-Gurion's death, the name of the street the house is on was changed to Sderot Ben-Gurion (שְׂדֵרוֹת בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן Sderōt Ben-Gūrjōn , German 'Ben-Gurion-Allee' , English Ben-Gurion Boulevard ) changed.

Look at the library

The first floor was used exclusively by David Ben-Gurion. Here is a bedroom, a toilet and a library that extends over four rooms. The library contains over 20,000 works in nine different languages, including publications in Hebrew, German, Russian, English, Turkish, French, Latin and Greek.

On the ground floor is the kitchen ( Paulas's room ), in which Ben-Gurion spent his last days in 1973 before he was admitted to the hospital. There is also one of his daughter's bedrooms here, which Ben-Gurion also used as a bedroom and as a shelter during two conflicts, the Suez crisis in 1956/57 and the Six Day War in 1967.

The Ben Gurion House is located at Sderot Ben-Gurion 17, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and is open on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8 am to 3 pm, Mondays from 8 am to 5 pm and on Fridays from 8 am to 1 pm. Admission is free.

literature

• Henrietta Singer, Sara Neuman: 70 years of Israel in 70 posters . Verlag Hermann Schmidt , 2018, ISBN 978-3-87439-906-7 (reviewed on Welt online ).

Web links

Commons : Ben Gurion House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ben-Gurion House ( Memento of November 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - former official website (English)
• Ben-Gurion house. inzumi GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 . 
• Israel poster with the Ben Gurion House in Tel Aviv, 1975

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ben-Gurion museum in Tel Aviv - David and Paula Ben Gurion's house in Tel Aviv. In: attractions-in-israel.com. Retrieved October 29, 2016 . 
2. ^ State of Israel (ed.): David Ben-Gurion Law, 5737 - 1976 . (English, online [PDF; accessed on November 27, 2016]).
3. ^ Museums in Israel: Beit Ben-Gurion. In: jewishvirtuallibrary.org. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), accessed November 27, 2016 . 
4. ^ Beit Ben-Gurion (David Ben-Gurion's House). In: gemsinisrael.com. Accessed November 27, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Kira Hanser: Israel's motley diversity in posters. In: welt.de. June 23, 2018, accessed October 31, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 32 ° 5 ′ 7.2 ″  N , 34 ° 46 ′ 18.2 ″  E