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    1. 500. Yil Vakfi - Tuerk Musevileri Müzesi (The Quincentennial Foundation - Museum of Turkish Jews)   
     
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    Museum devoted to promote, both within the country and abroad,
    the story of 700 years of amity between Turks and Jews - begining with the Ottoman conquest of Bursa(1326)- continuing with Beyazid II's warm welcome of the Sephardic Jews who prefered expulsion from Spain to giving up the faith and traditions of their ancestors - and carriying on until today. To show through the past 700 years how th...

    2. A Time Line Outlining the History of the Jewish Community in Cambridge   
     
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    This Time Line outlines the History of the Jewish Community in Cambridge,Massachusetts, starting 1896 until 1994.
    Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center and the Cambridge Jewish Community

    3. Abraham’s Well Museum   
     
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    Page with basic information about Abraham’s Well Museum in the city of Beer Sheva. Traditionally thought to have been dug by the Patriarch Abraham. This well is one of the hundreds of wells in the city and its surroundings. The museum serves as an in information center.

    4. Alte Synagoge Essen (Old Synagogue Essen)   
     
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    Website dedicated to museum in the Old Synagogue of Essen, Germany. The synagogue has been restored and is open to the public. Part of the archive of the community is housed in the museum.

    5. Ammunition hill museum   
     
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    Page with basic information about Ammunition hill museum in Jerusalem. Ammunition Hill is the main official memorial symbolizing the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem. The fortification is preserved as it was in the war and there is an underground museum that commemorates the soldiers who fell in the battle as well as an exhibit displaying the stages of the battle of the three brigades, th...

    6. Arad Visitors Center   
     
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    Page with basic information about the Arad Visitors Center. Arad is situated in Judea Desert not far from the Dead Sea. It is in the center of tourists’ sites in the South. The region is very attractive because of its nature resources and archaeological sites: Mazada, Sodom, kanyons, mountains, rivers, tropical plants and desert, variety of animals and birds.

    7. Archaeological Museum - Kibbutz Ein Dor   
     
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    The official site of Kibbutz Ein Dor, established at its present location facing Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee. The website presents the temporary and permanent exhibitions, educational activities and meetings. ****
    האתר הרשמי של המוזאון הארכאולוגי בעין דור. באתר, מידע על המוזאון
    ופעילויותיו, חדשות ואירועים. מכיל הסברים ותמונות על התערוכות הקבועות והמתחלפות. מוצג ארכיון המוזיאון, משנת 1996 ו...

    8. Archaeological museum "Beit Miriam"   
     
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    Page with basic information about the museum. The archaeological museum Beit Miriam is situated in Kibbutz Palmachim on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The unique artifacts on display in the museum tell the story of ancient cultures which settled in the area, and artifacts which were fished from the sea reveal the relationship between man and sea and help our understanding of naval rout...

    9. Ariel - Center for Jerusalem in the First Temple Period, Yad Ben-Zvi   
     
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    Page with basic information about Ariel - Center for Jerusalem in the First Temple Period, Yad Ben-Zvi, in the Jewish Quarter of the old city of Jerusalem. Topographic model of the city, Three-dimensional audio-visual show telling the history of Jerusalem in the Biblical period. Mechanical action and dramatic lighting reveal the underground water works in the City of David.

    10. Ashdod Museum   
     
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    Page with basic information about the Ashdod Museum. The museum has some sections: archaeological, historical, exhibitions hall with works of art of Israeli painters. Special exhibit dedicated to the history and archaeological study of the Philistines and Sea People.

    11. Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center Museum   
     
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    The Babylonian Jewry Museum in Or-Yehuda, Israel presents chapters in the history of the Jews of Babylon over a period of 2700 years, from the time of their exile from the Land of Israel (721-586 BCE) until their return to the State of Israel by Operation "Ezra and Nehemia" (1950-1952). The ethnographic exhibition shows the life style of the Jews of Iraq, their customs and manners, art a...

    12. Beit Hativat Givati Museum   
     
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    Page with basic information about Beit Hativat Givati Museum. The museum and memorial is at the site of the final battle in the War for Independence. The displays tell the heroic history of those days. The museum is situated between Ashdod and Kiryat-Gat.

    13. Ben Uri Gallery - London Museum of Jewish Art   
     
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    The Ben Uri has over the years built up a unique and important permanent collection of over 200 British and European Jewish artists reflecting close to 1000 works of art across all mediums.

    The Ben Uri offers a unique research resource and its commitment to art education in schools and colleges and its promotion of artists at all levels of their career, remains as strong today as ever before an...

    14. Ben-Gurion’s Desert Home   
     
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    Page with basic information the museum at Ben-Gurion’s Desert Home. D. Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel. In 1953 he resigned from the government and joined kibbutz Sde Boker. For him, settling in Negev was a mission of national, military and economic significance. After his death the house became a museum and a memorial. It is kept as it was during his life: furnitur...

    15. Beth Hatefutsoth - The Museum of the Jewish Diaspora   
     
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    Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, exists to convey the story of the Jewish people from the time of their expulsion from the Land of Israel 2,500 years ago to the present. It relates the unique story of the continuity of the Jewish people through exhibition, education and cultural endeavors, providing multiple avenues of personal historical identification.
    The sit...

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