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, also known by its acronym Etzel. Beit Gidi is one of the two buildings belonging to the Etzel Museum of Tel Aviv and it is placed next to the sea shore.Petit Futé's opinion on ETZEL MUSEUM
2021. The museum is named in honor of leading Irgun officer

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, codename "Gidi", and dedicated to the memory of the 41 Irgun fighters who died in the battle for

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in 1948. The other, main building of the Etzel Museum stands on King George Street and tells the story of the formation of Etzel, while Etzel House, or Beit Gidi, is illustrating the organisation's underground activities. The original stone house was built in 1900, toward the end of the Ottoman period, by a Jew. It is one of the very few leftovers from the predominantly Arab district of Manshiya (Arabic name), sometimes mentioned in Israel as Menashiya, that was in part destroyed during the 1948 battles. The ruins of the house are now built over by a glass structure, the resulting building being surrounded on three sides by the

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, with its fourth side facing the seafront.

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