# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paula-ben-gurion
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:55:22.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paula-ben-gurion"
name: "Paula Ben-Gurion"
slug: "paula-ben-gurion"
description: "Paula Ben-Gurion was the spouse of the first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion. Born in the Russian Empire, she migrated to the United States at a young age. There she trained as a surgical nurse and became an anarchist. She married Ben-Gurion, despite their disagreements on Zionism, and followed him to settle in Palestine. She dedicated her life to caring for her husband and raising their three children. During the 1930s, she attended the World Zionist Congress in Switzerland. Following the Israeli Declaration of Independence, her husband became the country's first prime minister and Paula served as his spouse. She subsequently became a prominent public figure in Israeli society, communicating with the press and attending public events. She also cared for her husband and managed their household in Tel Aviv, judging who would be permitted to see him and how long meetings would go on for. They retired to the Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev Desert, where they were buried alongside each other."
tagline: "Wife of Prime Minister of Israel"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paula_Ben-Gurion_1955.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1892"
deathDate: "1968-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.53
  momentum:             7.324414715719062
  historical:           5.578158666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Ben-Gurion"
    title: "Paula Ben-Gurion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بولا بن غوريون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%91%D1%91%D0%BD-%D0%93%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%91%D0%BD"
    title: "Пола Бён-Гурыён"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paula_Ben_Gurion"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Ben_Gourion"
    title: "Paula Ben Gourion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%9F-%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "פולה בן-גוריון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2906875"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump