בית דיזנגוף

This guide to Beit Dizengoff in Tel Aviv is set on the afternoon of May 14, 1948, hours before the British Mandate over Palestine is due to expire, when organizers blacked out the windows of Meir Dizengoff's former home and swore a room of men in suits to secrecy. It follows why this house, once the salon of Dizengoff's widow Zina, was chosen over the glass-fronted Habima Theater, and the scrap-timber stage and portrait of Theodor Herzl hurriedly assembled inside. Stand where that hall once stood and picture the thick walls and narrow windows the organizers were counting on.