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Dec 2, 1973 · TEL AVIV, Dec. 1 — David Ben‐Gurion, a founding father of modern Israel and its first Premier, died today at the age of 87. He succumbed at 11:06 A.M. local time (4:06 A.M. New York time) to a ...
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The old man was a legend in his own lifetime. He was viewed as a visionary before the State of Israel was born and was once described by Time magazine as a prophet with a gun, The late S.Y. Agnon once said: "We all wanted a Jewish State. Of course we did. But we were afraid of saying so out loud. And when the test came, we thought perhaps we should...
After an interval in which he studied law in Istanbul, he returned to Palestine and in 1915 the Turkish administration banished him and Yitzhak Ben Zvi, later Israel’s second President, and deprived him of his Turkish citizenship for "trying to tear Palestine out of the Turkish homeland." By 1921 he was definitely a national figure: Secretary Gener...
The volcanic transformations of Israel’s party politics which began in the early 1960’s made Ben Gurion into a one-man faction in the Knesset. The Internal struggle in Mapai, which began in 1961, made him resign the Premiership finally in 1963 and leave Mapai in 1965 to form the Fafi Party. Among its other leaders were Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres....
Ben Gurion was a prolific writer. He was the author of "Self-Government of Villages" (1914);"The Labor Movement and Revisionism" (1933);"From Class to Nation" (1933); "The Struggle" (5 volumes from 1947-50); "Rebirth and Destiny of Israel" (1954); "The Sinai Campaign" (1959); and "Years of Challenge" (1963). He was also a passionate reader and amon...
For many years Ben Gurion resided in Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev, his adopted home. At times he went to his Tel Aviv apartment where he had his library containing thousands of volumes – each in its place, and Ben Gurion knew the exact shelf and color of its cover. He was writing the modern history of the Jewish State before he died, but was only...
"Our entire history in the galut has represented a resistance to fate….In the galut the Jewish people knew the courage of non-surrender…Resisting fate is not enough. We must master our fate, we must take our destiny into our own hands! This is the doctrine of the Jewish revolution — not non-surrender to the galut but making an end of it." ("The Imp...
David Ben Gurion (Son of the Lion) died here shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday at the age of 87. Among the first Israelis to learn of his death were soldiers recovering from Yom Kippur War wounds at...
Final years and death Ben-Gurion working in kibbutz Sde Boker, 1953. Ben-Gurion retired from politics in 1970 and spent his last years living in a modest home in kibbutz Sde Boker, working on an 11-volume history of Israel's early years.
Mar 10, 2011 · It is 38 years since the death of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, or “the Old Man,” as he was called. Only a few today remember Ben-Gurion the leader and politician, but his...
Dec 22, 2020 · Among the first Israelis to learn of his death were soldiers recovering from Yom Kippur War wounds at Tel Hashomer-Sheba Medical Center where Ben-Gurion had been hospitalized since he suffered...
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David Ben-Gurion, a founder of the Israeli state and its first prime minister, has died aged 87. Mr Ben-Gurion died from a brain haemorrhage he suffered two weeks ago. His body is lying in...
