Greeting from the CEO

 

Dear Friends,

 
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to visit Beit Hatfutsot.
 
Ever since Beit Hatfutsot, the World Center for Jewish Communities in Israel and around the World (according to the Beth Hatefutsoth Law, 2005) opened to the public in 1978, it has been the only institution to present and document the story of the Jewish people throughout the generations and around the world.
 
Over the years, the museum has been a magnet for a wide range of audiences, and has worked tirelessly to deepen the knowledge and understanding of the uniqueness of the Jewish people, and to strengthen each individual’s sense of belonging, using the diverse mosaic of the Jewish people alongside the commonalities that bring the people together in their ongoing story.
 
Beit Hatfutsot is currently in the momentum of a major development plan and the establishment of the Museum of the Jewish People to tell the unique and ongoing story of the Jewish people. We stand before an ambitious and exciting plan of building a new exhibition that will take its viewers on a thrilling journey, during which they will experience and unveil the wondrous story and fascinating secret of survival of the Jewish people. This story is continuous and never-ending – and each and every visitor will be able to explore the picture of the Jewish people in our time, experience the Jewish present, and think about its future.
 
Beit Hatfutsot, by establishing a new core exhibition (a new museum), will create for its visitors an experience with a unique, attractive, and relevant added-value of strengthening the sense of belonging. The experience will engage, awaken interaction, thought, dialogue, and interest, and of course move people.
 
I hope that the virtual visit on this website will arouse your curiosity, interest and motivation to come and visit the museum itself – to be impressed by the exhibitions, to participate in events, to discover details of your own family story in the archival multimedia databases, and more. Enjoy following the process of building a new museum, which is set to become a Jewish art and cultural center in the heart of Tel Aviv.
 
Yours truly,
 
Avinoam Armoni