Independence Hall in Tel Aviv is housed in what was once the city's first mayor's home. Meir Dizengoff, who rode his horse through Tel Aviv's streets checking on construction and was known to scoop up unhappy-looking children for a ride, bequeathed the building to the city on his death in 1936. It became the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Then, on 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion stood in its main hall and declared the establishment of the State of Israel. The place where Tel Aviv began, it turned out, was also the place where Israel began. The museum relocated in the 1970s, and the building became a museum dedicated to that declaration, with a recreation of the ceremonial hall inside.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace the double founding on Rothschild Boulevard, connecting Dizengoff's mayoralty to the political debates that shaped the declaration and the provisional parliament that followed.