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Beit Hatfutsot,
the Museum of the Jewish People

In 2003, the NADAV Foundation responded to the Israeli government’s request to assist Beit Hatfutsot in exiting the rough financial and organizational crisis it was in. This aid enabled Beit Hatfutsot to begin a new era and the Fund continues to support the museum in the process of its development from the Diaspora Museum to the Museum of the Jewish people.

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In 2005 Beit Hatfutsot’s status was protected by the enactment of a law passed in the Knesset, that defined Beit Hatfutsot as “The National Center for Israel communities in Israel and the World”.

The Foundation is today heavily involved in enabling the development of the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot. The goal of this new museum, a Leonid Nevzlin initiative, is to tell the unique and continuing story of the Jewish people, while enhancing the development of a vibrant relationship between the Jewish people and the state of Israel, based on a concept of one global Jewish people encompassing all Jews whether living in Israel or any other place in the world.

The new museum will take its visitors on an exciting journey during which they will experience, discover and understand the unique and continuing story and world of the Jewish people and will try to solve the mystery of their unparalleled survival and fascinating existence.

The exhibits in the interactive museum will aim at developing a sense of belonging and connection between the visitor and the Jewish People's narrative by enabling examination of issues such as:

  • Similarities and differences within the Global Jewish people
  • The special place of the land and state of Israel for the Jewish people
  • The Jewish world in modern times
  • The cultural impact of and the reciprocal relationship between Jews and non-Jews
  • The status of woman in the Jewish world
  • The Jewish story and the People's fascinating survival.

The establishment of this new museum is being implemented in cooperation with the Israeli Government and the Claims Conference and is the peak of an overall renewal process that Beit Hatfutsot is going through with the help of the NADAV Foundation.

The new Museum should hopefully be open to the wide public from Israel and the world in 2012, after an investment of $24,000,000 one quarter of which has been pledged by Leonid Nevzlin through the NADAV Foundation. This pledge is over and above the funds already expended on saving, developing and restoring the original museum.

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