Australian remembered at new museum in Jerusalem
The Plugat HaKotel Museum will be opened today by Israel’s President Rueven Rivlin and will tell the story of a group of young heroic Betar members who risked their lives to keep a Jewish spark alive at the Western Wall.
David, Diane and Jonathan Shteinman
The museum has been funded by a generous donation from the Shteinman family in Sydney to honor the memory of Diane Shteinman’s late husband Bob and father of David, Jonathan and Ruth.
The story of the Betar youth is often forgotten and seldom mentioned in the annals of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.
The museum will add to the pages of history the story of the courage and sacrifice of these Jews who defied the British Mandate to restore Jewish sovereignty over the Western Wall, after 2,000 years of forced separation from the holiest site for the Jewish people.
