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Anzac Memorial Centre

The ANZAC spirit brought hundreds of horsemen from Australia and New Zealand to bravely and determinately fight for their homeland in the Land of Israel and in Be’er Sheva. You are invited to learn all about the ANZAC spirit at the ANZAC Memorial Center in Be’er Sheva. A tour of the center will unfold the story of these soldiers in an engaging and moving way.

The ANZAC Memorial Center in Be’er Sheva was built in cooperation with the governments of Australia and Israel, the Be’er Sheva municipality, the JNF, JNF Australia and the CWGC. The Center is located near the cemetery for combatants of the First World War in Be’er Sheva. The Center will be dedicated as part of the 100th anniversary of the occupation of Beersheba by the ANZAC forces on October 31, 2017 in the presence of the Prime Minister of Israel and the Prime Minister of Australia.

The ANZAC Memorial Center is a unique place in Israel that tells the story of the soldiers of the ANZAC soldiers and the conquest of Be’er Sheva in an experiential manner. Visitors to the center will journey to another continent, another time, and discover themselves in the process.The ANZAC Memorial Center in Be’er Sheva is an educational facility committed to promoting and instilling the values of heritage, patriotism, identity and the promulgation of knowledge, all embodied by the ANZAC spirit and their stories.

The ANZAC Memorial Center is a central point of interest for visitors in the city of Be’er Sheva. The Center is a magnet for tourists from Israel and from around the world, for IDF soldiers, for students and for anyone interested in the national heritage of Israel and of the city of Be’er Sheva, as well as those who cherish the ANZAC soldiers and their bravery.

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Beit Aaronsohn – Nili Museum

Nili is an acronym standing for “Netzach Israel Lo Yishaker.” The underground Nili network was established in 1915 and operated in Eretz Israel during WWI. Its objectives were: to assist the British effort to conquer Eretz Israel by gathering information; to support the Jewish Yishuv in Eretz Israel in a time of famine and disease; to draw world attention to what was happening in Eretz Israel; and to fulfill the dream of establishing a Jewish State in Eretz Israel.

Nili was founded and led by agronomist Aaron Aaronsohn from Zikhron Ya’akov, joined by his sister Sarah and brother Alexander, as well as Avshalom Feinberg from Hadera, brothers Na’aman and Eitan Belkind from Rishon LeZion, Yosef Lishansky from Metula and dozens of others. The organization operated from Athlit, where Aaron’s Agricultural Experiment Station was located. British forces sailed regularly between Egypt and Athlit – the British warship Managam frequently came ashore at Athlit to collect the information gathered by Nili members. Information was also passed on via homing pigeon.

In the spring of 1917 rumors about the espionage organization circulated around the Yishuv. A number of events led to the exposure of the organization in September 1917: a British coin was found in the market in Ramleh, a homing pigeon failed to complete its mission and landed in the governor’s yard in Caesarea and Na’aman Belkind was arrested by Turkish authorities.

Following these events, the Turks began a campaign of threats and terror against the Jewish Yishuv in order to apprehend Nili members. Many were in fact caught and tortured. Sarah Aaronsohn committed suicide after undergoing severe torture. Na’aman Belkind and Yosef Lishansky were executed in Damascus. The bravery and heroism of the men and women of Nili helped the British enter Eretz Israel and end the Ottoman rule.

The First Aliyah Museum

Our museum is located in what was known as the “Administrative Building” built in 1894 by the Baron’s delegates and considered to be the largest and most magnificent in the Land of Israel at the time. It served as a managerial center for all the colonies in the area. The building had originally two tall stories, with a balcony overlooking the street. On the second floor was a magnificent hall, paved with white and black marble.

In 1903 the momentous national conference called the “First Convention” was organised here. This was the first time in the history of the renewed Yishuv in Eretz Yisrael that all of its advocates gathered to discuss the issues of Zionism. Menachem Ussishkin, a representative of Russian Zionism, came to Palestine to organize the convention just as the Sixth Zionist Congress was arranged in Basel, Switzerland, known as the “Uganda Congress”. At the end of that week, Elul 5663, school and kindergarten teachers stayed behind to establish the Hebrew Teachers’ Union of the Land of Israel. These gatherings were the first in which women were granted the right to vote.

During WWI, the Ottoman authorities turned the building into a military hospital and mosque. When they left the country, the building returned to use as a form of congressional building and later as the Zichron Yaakov elementary school. Between then and its conversion to a museum it was a community center and the local municipality offices. In 1988, the building was declared a “national heritage site” and its renovation took place in the years 1990-1999.

About 25 colonies can be identified according to common consensus as having been founded in the first years of aliyah. Some of them became large cities in Israel (Rishon Lezion, Petah Tikva, Rehovot, Hadera). Some have remained small rural towns to this day (Mazkeret Batya, Rosh Pina, Zichron Yaakov, Bat Shlomo) and some failed and have since been abandoned (Mahanayim, Ein Ganim, and the colonies in the Horan, the area not included in the State of Israel).
The land on which the colonies were built was partially bought with the money of the immigrants themselves, but the most considerable finances were provided by Baron Rothschild.

IIana Goor Museum

The Ilana Goor Museum, founded in 1995, is an Israeli art museum situated in the historical part of Jaffa. The museum displays the artowrk of Ilana Goor, an artist, designer and sculptor. Its eclectic collection has been called an “artistic jungle”, but Goor considers it to have been her own “university.”

The building now housing the Ilana Goor Museum was originally erected in 1742. At that time it was used as an inn for Jewish pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem. The inn, located outside the city walls, served as a shelter, protecting the pilgrims from robbers. In the second half of the 19th century it became a factory for olive oil soap. Yet another century later, in 1949 and thus by now within the newly created State of Israel, a community of Libyan Jews were using part of the building as a synagogue. Ilana Goor first purchased part of the building in 1983, and then eventually also the rest of it, with the intention of converting it to a museum dedicated to her art collection. The museum was inaugurated in September 1995.

The museum has a collection of more than 500 works of art, either created by Ilana Goor or collected by her over a period of 50 years, either in Israel or during her travels around the world. The collection includes paintings, some 300 sculptures, video art, Ethnic Art from Africa and Latin America, antiques, drawings and design objects. The museum has works by contemporary artists like Diego Giacometti, Henry Moore, Josef Albers and Olga Wolniak.

Segovia Museum

The Museum of Segovia opened its doors in 1842, in the episcopal palace, under the tutelage of the Provincial Commission of Historical and Artistic Monuments, to preserve the collections of art objects from the Disentailment. Throughout its history it will appear under various names: Museum of Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Provincial Museum, and currently, the Museum of Segovia.

Already in 1845 the headquarters of the Museum moved to San Facundo. However, since the second half of the s. XIX, the collections would be progressively dispersed to various venues, for exhibition or storage (San Facundo, San Juan and School of Arts and Crafts, Casa del Hidalgo and Chapel of the Old Hospital for Old People), until it is installed and reunited again complete in the Casa del Hidalgo and the adjoining building, in 1967

In 1981 the management of the museum passed to the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León, although the ownership continues to be state-owned. In 1991 the collection moved to the Casa del Sol, a building ceded to the State by the City Council, where the permanent exhibition finally opened to the public in July 2006, after years of restructuring the building.

Sephardic Museum of Toledo

The Sephardic Museum in Toledo, Spain, housed in the former Convent of the Knights of Calatrava is attached to the Transito Synagogue. It hosts many vestiges of Jewish culture in Spain.The Sephardic Museum displays historical, religious, and customs of the Jewish past in Spain, as well as Sephardic Jews, the descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula until 1492.

House of Memory of Al-Ándalus

Cultural centre situated in the Santa Cruz District, Casa de la Memoria de Al-Ándalus organises exhibitions and concerts and throughout the year a musical cycle focused on the art of flamenco. The headquarters is an old house-palace that conserves the elements of the original Jewish house (15th century) as well as other elements from the 16th and 17th centuries. The house and the shop can be visited where exclusive craftsmanship of the Al-Andalus and Sephardi tradition can be bought.

Girona Museum of Art

Girona Art Museum is home to the most important collection in both the diocese and in Girona province as a whole and offers an itinerary through unique works of Catalan art.

Visitors to the Museum are offered a chronological presentation of pictorial and sculptural works from different periods and in successive styles (Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Realist, Art Nouveau and noucentista), as well as rooms devoted to ceramics, glassware and liturgical art.

The route through the permanent exhibition starts with a fragment of an early Christian tombstone from Empúries. The collection significantly includes the liturgical ensemble from Sant Pere de Rodes (ninth century), the Martyrology of Usuard (a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript) and one of the most striking altarpiece ensembles of the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries, as well as major Catalan Renaissance and Baroque works. The visit concludes with works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century painters who were connected with Girona, such as Urgell, Vayreda, Rusiñol, Berga and Bertrana.

The Museum’s exhibition rooms and gardens periodically host different activities and temporary exhibitions.

Girona Art Museum is located in the exceptional setting of the former Episcopal Palace, the first references to which date from the tenth century. Different areas of the building still conserve their original format. Examples are the gaol, where priests condemned by the ecclesiastical court served prison sentences, and the majestic garden, which is open to the public on different occasions throughout the year.

Jewish Museum of Girona

The aim of the Jewish Museum of Gironia is to preserve the history of the Jewish communities of Catalonia. In most cases an attempt has been made to illustrate the explanations given during the visit to the Museum with examples of items originating from Girona’s own Jewish history. These examples, which may be in documentary, archaeological or pictorial form, thus offer a general explanation of the pattern of Jewish life in medieval Catalonia.

Girona History Museum

At number 27 of Força street is the entrance to the City History Museum which along with its permanent exhibition has staged numerous temporary ones. At the museum, there is a visual and educational overview of the history and life of Girona is provided from prehistory to the present day, there is also a reference to the Jewish collective as an essential part of the city in the Middle Ages.

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