Etzel House

The Etzel House (Hebrew: בית אצ"ל‎), commonly known as Beit Gidi (Hebrew: בית גידי‎), is a museum located in Tel Aviv, Israel dedicated to the Zionist paramilitary organization Irgun, also known by its acronym Etzel.

Etzel House
בית אצ"ל
LocationNahum Goldmann St 2
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Coordinates32.0593025°N 34.7586367°E / 32.0593025; 34.7586367
Typehistory
Websitegal-ed.co.il/etzel

The museum is named in honor of leading Irgun officer Amichai Paglin, codename "Gidi", and dedicated to the memory of the 41 Irgun fighters who died in the battle for Jaffa in 1948.[1][2]

The Museum consists of two buildings. The first one, on King George street, is the main one. It tells the story of the formation of Etzel. The second one is surrounded on three sides by the Charles Clore Park, with its fourth side facing the seafront. It is a glass structure standing on the ruins of a stone house of the Ottoman period, a leftover from the Arab district of Menachia that was razed in the battle. That separate part of the museum traces the underground activities of Etzel[3]

References
  1. The War of 1948: Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives. Indiana University Press. 2016. pp. 78–79. ISBN 9780253023414.
  2. "Etzel Museum - Tales from the underground". The Jerusalem Post. 25 January 2010.
  3. Petit Futé's opinion on ETZEL MUSEUM, 2021.
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