# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-ben-gurion
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:25:26.758Z

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name: "David Ben-Gurion"
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description: "He stood in Tel Aviv on 14 May 1948 and formally proclaimed the establishment of Israel, the first to sign the declaration he'd helped write. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935 and the country's first prime minister, Ben-Gurion turned decades of Zionist organizing into a state — and into a war that redrew the map."
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deathDate: "1973-12-01"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born David Grün in Płońsk, Congress Poland, in 1886, he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1906 and adopted the name Ben-Gurion three years later. He rose to lead the Jewish community in British-ruled Mandatory Palestine from 1935 and became executive head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946. The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which followed his declaration of statehood, saw him unite Jewish militias into the Israel Defense Forces, secure victory over the Arab League, and preside over the expulsion and flight of a majority of the Palestinian Arab population. As prime minister and minister of defence, he built state institutions, oversaw mass Jewish immigration, and pursued a reparations agreement with West Germany. He resigned in 1954, returned after the Lavon Affair in 1955, backed the Suez invasion in 1956, and stepped down for good in 1963. He retired to a kibbutz hut in the Negev desert, where he died in 1973.