Hagana Museum

Frommer's Review

Established beside the home of Eliyahu Golomb, a former Hagana general, this is a fascinating place, well worth a visit if you're an Israeli history buff. The museum records the history of the Israeli military from the time of the farm-field watchmen at the beginning of the century down through the War of Independence. On the third floor, you see the various ways the Israelis hid arms inside farm machinery to escape British detection, and how they stealthily manufactured hand grenades and Sten guns in clandestine kibbutz workshops. There's one homemade grenade with the letters USA stamped on it, so that had a Hagana soldier been caught with the bomb, the British wouldn't have suspected that it had been made locally. But the joke here was that "USA" are the first letters of three Yiddish words meaning "our piece of work."

Almost all of the explanatory captions in this four-story museum are in Hebrew, but never fear -- the museum has a group of English-speaking interpreters.

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