Menachem Begin Heritage Center
The Menachem Begin Heritage Center is the official state memorial commemorating Menachem Begin, Israel's sixth Prime Minister. The center is located on the Hinnom Ridge, overlooking Mount Zion and walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.Photo: Ricardo Tulio Gandelman, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: Israeli state memorial
- Address: 6 נכון, Jerusalem
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gehenna and Ketef Hinnom.
Gehenna
Meadow
Photo: Michal.lvn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gehenna or Gehinnom is a Biblical toponym that has acquired various theological connotations, including as a place of divine punishment, in Jewish eschatology. Gehenna is situated 160 metres east of Menachem Begin Heritage Center.
Ketef Hinnom
Archaeological site
Photo: Bachrach44, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ketef Hinnom is an archaeological site discovered in the 1970s southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem. Archaeological excavations held at the site uncovered a series of Iron Age period Judahite burial chambers, dating to the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.
Cinematheque
Movie theater
Photo: Gilabrand, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Jerusalem Cinematheque is a cinematheque and film archive in Jerusalem.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Zion and Yemin Moshe.
Mount Zion
Suburb
Yemin Moshe
Neighborhood
Photo: Pazit Polak, CC BY 2.0.
Yemin Moshe is a historic neighborhood in Jerusalem, overlooking the Old City.
German Colony
Suburb
The German Colony is a neighborhood in Jerusalem, established in the second half of the 19th century as a German Templer colony in Palestine. Today "the Moshava", as it is popularly known, is an upscale neighborhood bisected by Emek Refaim Street, an avenue lined with trendy shops, restaurants and cafes.
Menachem Begin Heritage Center
- Categories: biographical museum, statutory corporation, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.76927° or 31° 46′ 9″ northLongitude
35.22544° or 35° 13′ 32″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ69G+P5OpenStreetMap ID
node 560652053OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q2902741
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Serbo-Croatian—“Menachem Begin Heritage Center” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Centrum odkazu Menachema Begina”
- French: “Centre du patrimoine de Menahem Begin”
- Hebrew: “מרכז בגין”
- Hebrew: “מרכז מורשת בגין”
- Hebrew: “מרכז מורשת מנחם בגין”
- Polish: “Muzeum Menachema Begina”
- Romanian: “Centrul de îincepători”
- Russian: “Центр наследия Менахема Бегина”
- Russian: “Центр памяти Менахема Бегина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Memorijalni centar Menahem Begin”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint Andrews and Czech House Jerusalem.
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