Ben-Gurion House in Tel Aviv, Historical residence museum in Tel Aviv, Israel

Ben-Gurion House is a residence museum in Tel Aviv that preserves the former home of David Ben-Gurion, with personal objects, documents, and thousands of books spread across several floors. The rooms, including the study, bedroom, and living areas, are arranged as they were when he lived there.

David Ben-Gurion lived in the house from 1931 to 1953, and it was here that the Israeli Declaration of Independence of 1948 was drafted. The building stood at the center of events that shaped the founding of the state.

The second floor holds Ben-Gurion's four-room library of over 20,000 books in Hebrew, English, German, Russian, French, Turkish and other languages, covering Zionism, history, religions and many Bible volumes. He kept a large section of books commemorating fallen IDF soldiers. One library room was his study corner, where he wrote his diary and had a direct telephone line to the Defense Ministry.

The house sits in central Tel Aviv and can be reached on foot from many parts of the city. Guided tours are available in several languages and help make sense of the rooms and their context.

Ben-Gurion used his daughter Renana's first-floor room as a shelter and bedroom during Operation Kadesh, the 1956 Suez campaign. From there he communicated with Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan and received frontline updates on the operation's progress.