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!Name!!Location!!Primary display/topic!!data-sort-type="number"|Annual visitors
! !!Location!!Primary display/topic!!data-sort-type="number"|Annual visitors
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|[[ANU - Museum of the Jewish People]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|[[Jewish history]]
|220,000<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nussbaum Cohen |first1=Debra |title=Museum of the Jewish People |url=https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2021/05/05/connecting-unites-us/ |website=Hadassah Magazine |access-date=8 July 2024 |date=May 2021}}</ref>
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|[[Israel Museum]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Givat Ram]])
|Archaeology, art, sculpture
|~1,000,000 (2023)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Elia-Shalev |first1=Asaf |title=Former director of Israel Museum to lead Jewish Museum in New York |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-director-of-israel-museum-to-lead-jewish-museum-in-new-york/ |website=The Times of Israel |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
|827,254 (2012)<ref name="theartnewspaper">{{cite web |url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/attfig/attfig12.pdf |title= |website=www.theartnewspaper.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102172933/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/attfig/attfig12.pdf |archive-date=January 2, 2015}}</ref>
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|[[Yad Vashem]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Mount Herzl]])
|[[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]
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|[[Rockefeller Museum]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[East Jerusalem]])
|Archaeology
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|[[Siebenberg House]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Old City (Jerusalem)|Old City]])
|Archaeology
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|[[L. A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Katamon]])
|Islamic art, antique clocks & watches
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|[[Gush Katif Museum]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Nachlaot]])
|History ([[Gush Katif]])
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|[[Heichal Shlomo]] Jewish Heritage Museum
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[King George Street (Jerusalem)|King George Street]])
|[[Judaica]]
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|[[Menachem Begin Heritage Center]]
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|[[Jerusalem]]
|Biographical – [[Menachem Begin]]
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|[[Friends of Zion Museum]]
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|[[Jerusalem]]
|[[Jewish history]]
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|[[Beit Agnon]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Talpiot]])
|Biographical – [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]]
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|[[Museum of Underground Prisoners]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Musrara, Jerusalem|Morasha]])
|Jewish resistance in the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate]]
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|[[Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Givat Ram]])
|Biblical history, archaeology
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|[[Bloomfield Science Museum]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Givat Ram]])
|Hands-on science and technology
|300,000<ref>{{cite web |title=Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem |url=https://eusea.info/member/bloomfield-science-museum-jerusalem/#:~:text=BSMJ%20is%20a%20leading%20informal,all%20sectors%20of%20Israeli%20society. |website=European Science Engagement Association |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
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|[[Ticho House]]
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|[[Jerusalem]]
|Paintings by Anna Ticho, Judaica
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|[[Tower of David]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Old City (Jerusalem)|Old City]])
|History of Jerusalem
|500,000+ (2023)<ref>{{cite web |title=Tower of David Museum {{!}} מוזיאון מגדל דוד |url=https://www.kimmel.co.il/project/tower-david-museum#:~:text=The%20museum%20includes%2010%20exhibition,receives%20over%20500%2C000%20visitors%20annually. |website=Kimmel Eshkolot Architects |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Borschel-Dan |first1=Amanda |title=Arabic inscription found under Tower of David rewrites ancient citadel's past |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-tower-of-david-looks-to-future-excavations-rewrite-ancient-citadels-past/ |website=The Times of Israel |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
|450,000 (2017)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/40m-expansion-renovation-planned-for-history-of-jerusalem-museum-1.6091820|title=$40 Million Expansion-renovation Planned for Jerusalem's Tower of David Museum|author=Riba, Naama|work=[[Haaretz]]|date=May 15, 2018|access-date=June 4, 2018}}</ref>
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|[[Herzl museum]]
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Mount Herzl]])
|Biographical – [[Theodor Herzl]], history of [[Zionism]]
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|[[U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art]]
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|[[Jerusalem]]
|Italian Jewish art, Italian synagogue
|40,000<ref>{{cite web |title=Museums in Jerusalem: The U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-u-nahon-museum-of-italian-jewish-art |website=Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
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|[[Jerusalem Tax Museum]]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-s-past-seen-anew-as-jerusalem-s-historic-custom-house-reopens.premium-1.431161 | title=Israel's past seen anew, as Jerusalem's historic Custom House reopens | publisher=[[Haaretz]] }}</ref>
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|[[Jerusalem]] ([[Jaffa Road]])
|Historical documents
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|[[Tel Aviv Museum of Art]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|Modern art, contemporary Israeli art
|1,070,714 (2022)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cheshire |first1=Lee |last2=da Silva |first2=Jose |title=The 100 most popular art museums in the world—who has recovered and who is still struggling? |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/27/the-100-most-popular-art-museums-in-the-worldwho-has-recovered-and-who-is-still-struggling |website=The Art Newspaper |date=27 March 2023 |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
|750,000 (2012)<ref name="theartnewspaper" />
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|[[Frenkel Frenel Museum]]
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|[[Safed]]
|Art of Franco-Israeli painter and sculptor, [[Yitzhak Frenkel|Isaac Frenkel Frenel]]
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|[[Independence Hall (Israel)|Independence Hall]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|History of Israel (independence)
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|[[Israel Defense Forces History Museum|Batei HaOsef]]
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|Formerly [[Tel Aviv]], now being transferred to [[Latrun]]
|[[Israel Defense Forces]]
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|[[Bauhaus Foundation Tel Aviv|Bauhaus Museum]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|[[White City of Tel Aviv]]
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|[[Bialik House]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|[[Hayyim Nahman Bialik]]
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|[[Ben-Gurion House]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|[[David Ben-Gurion]]
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|[[EtzelHetzel HouseMuseum]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|[[Irgun]] pre-state Jewish underground
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|[[Etzel House]] (Beit Gidi)
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|[[Irgun]] – [[Operation Hametz]]
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|[[Steinhardt Museum of Natural History]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|Natural history
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|[[Yitzhak Rabin Center]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|[[Yitzhak Rabin]]
|100,000<ref>{{cite web |last1=Eltes |first1=Julie |title=Yitzhak Rabin Center - THE LEGACY LIVES ON |url=https://www.haaretz.com/haaretz-labels/2016-11-01/ty-article-labels/the-legacy-lives-on/00000180-8db7-d30a-a5ae-afbf5a1f0000 |website=Haaretz |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
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|HerzLilienblum Museum of Banking and Tel Aviv Nostalgia<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.jpost.com/Local-Israel/Tel-Aviv-And-Center/Feel-the-heartbeat-of-Old-Tel-Aviv | title=Feel the Heartbeat of Old Tel Aviv | newspaper=[[Jerusalem Post]] }}</ref>
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|[[Tel Aviv]]
|Banking and old Tel Aviv culture
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|[[Lehi Museum]] – Beit [[Avraham Stern|Yair]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]] ([[Florentin, Tel Aviv|Florentin]])
|[[Lehi (group)|Lehi]]
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|[[The Olympic Experience]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]] ([[Hadar Yosef]])
|Sports
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|[[Nahum Gutman Museum of Art]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]] ([[Neve Tzedek]])
|Art by [[Nachum Gutman]]
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|[[Farkash Gallery collection]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]] ([[Jaffa|Old Jaffa]])
|Posters
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|[[Ilana Goor Museum]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]] ([[Jaffa|Old Jaffa]])
|Israeli art and culture
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|[[Jaffa Museum]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]] ([[Jaffa|Old Jaffa]])
|Israeli art and culture, antiquities
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|[[Eretz Israel Museum]]
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|[[Tel Aviv]] (Museum Campus)
|Archaeology, history of [[Eretz Yisrael]]
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|[[Beit HaPalmach]]
|[[The Museum of The Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot]]
|[[Tel Aviv]] (Museum Campus)
|A pluralistic and diverse experience of the Jewish people
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|[[Beit HaPalmach]]
|[[Tel Aviv]] ([[Ramat Aviv]])
|Jewish resistance during the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate]] – [[Palmach]]
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|[[Haifa Museum]]
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|[[Haifa]]
|Contemporary Israeli art
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|[[Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art]]
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|[[Haifa]]
|Japanese art
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|[[Israel Railway Museum]]
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|[[Haifa]]
|Transportation – railways
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|[[Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum|Israeli Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum]]
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|[[Haifa]]
|[[Israel Defense Forces]] – [[Israeli Sea Corps|Sea Corps]]
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|[[Israeli National Maritime Museum]]
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|[[Haifa]]
|Maritime history
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|[[Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space]]
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|[[Haifa]]
|Science and technology, hands-on exhibits
|400,000<ref>{{cite web |title=About Madatech |url=https://www.madatech.org.il/en/about |website=Madatech |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
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|Moshe Shteklis Museum of Prehistory
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|[[Haifa]]
|History – prehistory
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|[[Hecht Museum]]
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|[[Haifa]]
|Archaeology, Art
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|Munio Gitai Weinraub Museum of Architecture
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|[[Haifa]]
|Architecture
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|[[Mane-Katz#Mane-Katz museum|Mane-Katz Museum]]
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|[[Haifa]]
|Art
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|Arad Bible Museum
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|[[Arad, Israel|Arad]]
|Archaeology
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|Arad Doll Museum
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|[[Arad, Israel|Arad]]
|[[Comedia del arte]] figures, handcrafted dolls<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artportal.co.il/?CategoryID=418&ArticleID=362 |title=Arad Doll Museum |website=ArtPortal.co.il |location=Israel |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306133158/http://artportal.co.il/?articleid=362&categoryid=418 |archive-date=2016-03-06 }}</ref>
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|Arad Glass Museum
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|[[Arad, Israel|Arad]]
|Glass sculpture
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|Arad Museum of Art
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|[[Arad, Israel|Arad]]
|Art
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|[[Beit HaGdudim]]
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|[[Avihayil]]
|[[Jewish Legion]]
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|[[Ashdod Museum of Art]]
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|[[Ashdod]]
|Art
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|[[Karin Maman Museum]]
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|[[Ashdod]]
|Archaeology
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|[[Negev Museum of Art]]
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|[[Beersheba]]
|Art
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|[[Biblical Museum of Natural History]]
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|[[Beit Shemesh]]
|Hands-on animals, Torah, history and science
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|[[Ralli Museum]]
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|[[Caesarea]]
|[[Caesarea (modern town)|Caesarea]]
|Art
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|[[Ein Harod (Meuhad)#Art museum|Ein Harod Museum of Art]] (Mishkan)
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|[[Ein Harod]]<!-- hewiki says in Ihud, enwiki says Meuhad, so i'm leaving the dab for now -->
|Art
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|Sturman Museum
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|[[Ein Harod]]
|Natural history
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|[[Janco Dada Museum]]
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|[[Ein Hod]]
|Art (Israeli)
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|[[Wilfrid Israel Museum]]
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|[[HaZore'a]]
|Art (Asian)
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|[[Israeli Air Force Museum]]
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|[[Hatzerim Airbase]]
|[[Israel Defense Forces]] – [[Israeli Air Force|Air Force]]
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|[[Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art]]<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_%26_Culture/Herzliyamuse.html | title=Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art | website=JewishVirtualLibrary.org }}</ref>
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|[[Herzliya]]
|Art (contemporary Israeli)
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|[[Holon Children's Museum]]
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|[[Holon]]
|Children; visually impaired; hearing impaired
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|[[Design Museum Holon]]
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|[[Holon]]
|Design
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|[[Egged Historical Vehicle Museum]]
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|[[Holon]]
|Transportation – buses
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|[[Yad La-Shiryon]]
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|[[Latrun]]
|[[Israel Defense Forces]] – [[Armor Corps (Israel)|Armor Corps]]
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|[[Mini Israel]]
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|[[Latrun]]
|[[Miniature park]], architecture
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|[[Ghetto Fighters' House]]
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|[[Lohamei HaGeta'ot]]
|[[Holocaust]] and [[Jewish resistance under Nazi rule|Jewish Resistance]]
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|[[Museum of Prehistory of the Hulah Valley]]
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|[[Ma'ayan Barukh]]
|Archaeology
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|Masada Museum
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|[[Masada]]
|History of Masada
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|[[International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]]
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|[[Netanya]]
|Sports
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|Petah Tikva Museum of Art
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|[[Petah Tikva]]
|Art
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|[[Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art|Museum of Israeli Art]]
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|[[Ramat Gan]]
|Art (Israeli)
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|[[Museum of Russian Art (Israel)|Museum of Russian Art]]
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|[[Ramat Gan]]
|Art (Russian)
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|[[Yehiel Nahari Museum of Far Eastern Art]]
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|[[Ramat Gan]]
|Art (Far Eastern)
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|[[Yemenite Jewish Heritage Center and Museum]]
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|[[Rehovot]]
|[[Yemenite Jews|Yemenite Jewish Heritage]]
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|Rishon LeZion City Museum
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|[[Rishon LeZion]]
|City
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|[[The Arab Museum of Contemporary Art (Sakhnin)|The Arab Museum of Contemporary Art]]
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|[[Sakhnin]]
|Art (Contemporary Arab, Israeli and Mediterranean Art)
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|Museum for Archaeology and Knowledge of Israel
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|[[Sasa, Israel|Sasa]]
|Archaeology
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|Qassam Museum
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|[[Sderot]]
|[[Qassam rocket]]s
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|[[German-Speaking Jewry Heritage Museum Tefen]]
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|[[Tefen Industrial Zone]]
|[[Jewish history]]
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|[[Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery]]<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/view-from-jerusalem-with-harriet-sherwood/2011/mar/10/new-museum-umm-al-fahm | title=Israel to get first museum of Arab art and culture | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | location=UK }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/.premium-1.662641 | title=When Is an Arab Museum Not an Arab Museum? | journal=TheMarker | publisher=Haaretz | access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref>
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|[[Umm al-Fahm]]
|Art (Arab)
|40,000 (2010)<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Sullivan |first1=Arieh |title=Palestinian art gets a home |url=https://www.jewishindependent.ca/oldsite/archives/may11/archives11may13-05.html |website=The Jewish Independent |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>
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|[[Beit HaTotchan]]
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|[[Zikhron Ya'akov]]
|[[Israel Defense Forces]] – [[Artillery Corps (Israel)|Artillery Corps]]
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|[https://urigellermuseum.com/ Urigeller Museum]
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|Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv-Yafo
|Art, History
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