The Haganah Museum occupies one of the more consequential addresses on Rothschild Boulevard. Number 23 was home to Moshe Shertok, who became Israel's first foreign minister.

His schoolfriend Eliyahu Golomb ran the Haganah from here: the paramilitary organisation that defended Jewish settlements from Arab attacks before statehood. Security decisions, including weapon acquisitions and recruitment, were made on the building's balcony.

It began with thirteen teenagers. In 1917, Shertok, Golomb and their friend Dov Hos formed a volunteer group to guard Tel Aviv's empty houses during the First World War. From that improvised patrol grew the first organised Jewish self-defence force of the modern era, and eventually the IDF.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the museum to trace the full arc from those thirteen volunteers to statehood, following the overlapping careers of the three schoolfriends who became brothers-in-law and built a country.