Museum dedicated to the history of the Palmach, mouth or shock ("plugot mahaz"). Created even before the emergence of the state of Israel, these units became the backbone of the defense Army of the country. Percussion mouth left major commanders and policy (Igal Allon, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan), prominent figures of culture. The palms is a legendary part of the history of Israel.

The palm trees was created in 1941 when over Palestine threatened invasion of the Nazis. This would mean the physical extermination of the local Jews. The command of the Haganah (the armed forces of the Yishuv - the Jewish population in Palestine) decided to create guerrilla units for action in the rear of the Nazis.

Trained and financed the British troops. Money was allocated to five hundred people, but the command of his mouth managed to contain them fifteen hundred volunteers. Under the guise of a flying club in the Palmach had been sailors and Palaver - the germ of future air force of the country.

Fighters of the Palmach into the rear of the Italians and Germans in Lebanon and Syria, destroyed communication lines, military facilities. During one of the operations of the young Moshe Dayan lost his left eye. Job allied scouts drum mouth were dropped by parachute into Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy. Many of them died.

In fact, the Trees had only obeyed the orders of the Haganah, which in 1943 the British stopped working with him. The organization went underground. To survive, she formed an Alliance with the kibbutzim: each kibbutz took over the maintenance platoon, the soldiers of the same fourteen days in the month gave the agricultural works.

The history of the Palmach contradictory. Created it left socialists saw the ideal in the USSR, the command structure was loyal protalinski party MAPS. Palmhouse were ready to execute any order. In early 1945 they, according to the order of the leadership of the Yishuv launched the hunt for a Jewish underground organization of Zionists-revisionists (Irgun and Lehi). Captured partisans were tortured and handed over to the British.

By the beginning of the war of independence, the Palmach consisted of three brigades, and these were the best fighters of the Haganah. They excelled in all battles. However Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, striving for national unity, dismissed the impact of a company. Their fighters joined the IDF.

The Palmach Museum was opened in 2000. For him by the architect Zvi Hecker and Rafi Segal was specially built like a fortress building. In one of the halls recreated the tel Aviv street in the forties of last century, when the Trees started. Scroll newsreels played street scene seventy years ago. In another room is a typical country-the grove of eucalyptus, it is a secret point of reception volunteers. Seven young Israelis meet with the commander. Amid the country's history unfolding personal stories of these seven: battles, raids, injuries. The story is accompanied by an extremely realistic sound and light effects.

The tour begins and ends in the Memorial hall, dedicated to the memory of Palmanova who gave their lives in the battles for Israel.