Description
The Israeli Museum at the Yitzhak Rabin Center is the first and only museum in Israel to detail the history and development of the modern State of Israel. Visitors explore the history and makings of the State via exhibit halls, each focusing on historical turning points in the country’s development. The exhibits lay out the conflicts, social challenges and dilemmas the country faced as a young democracy, providing the backdrop for dialogue with students, soldiers, and groups from around the world. Interwoven among the exhibits’ narratives is the story of the life of Yitzhak Rabin, the connecting thread in the country’s history and development. The museum is comprised over close to 200 short documentary films and over 1,500 still photographs obtained from archives in Israel and around the world. Opened in January 2010, the museum is expected to host over fifty-thousand visitors annually and will serve as one of the foremost educational instruments in teaching democratic values and providing the tools with which to resolve social conflicts for future generations, in Israel and around the world.