The Institute was founded in 1937 by Yosef Paamoni (1902-1966), who began with his own initiative to preserve the documents and photographs related to the practice and thought of Zeev Jabotinsky and his movement, and subsequently implemented decisions made in 1933 in the movement’s central institutions to establish an archicenter in Vani, 11. How about the movement and which will be called the “Beitar Museum”.

 

Since its foundation, the institute has been working with the aim of collecting, preserving and presenting documents, publications and photographs related to Zeev Jabotinsky and the revisionist movement. Six volumes of the Chachar, the Harut movement, Gahal, Likud, the Beitar youth movement in Israel and in the Diaspora, the underground of the Atzel, Lahi and the Beryat Beryot, the Al, the Afaflet “Nevertheless”, Machal, The National Movement in the Holocaust and Heroism and more.. At the service of the sources are the services of a reference advisor with positions and a reader for viewing microfilm. Next to the archive there is a library with over 18 thousand titles.