David Ben-Gurion
✓ Source-basedrisingIsraeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948-1953, 1955-1963) - (born1886-1973)
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also IsraelHe 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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1949 Election - HebrewIn their own words 10
We accepted the UN resolution, but the Arabs did not. They are preparing to make war on us.
Address to the Israeli cabinet (12 May 1948), as quoted in "One day that shook the world" by Ellli Wohlgelernter, in The Jerusalem Post (30
We must support the army as though there were no White Paper, and fight the White Paper as though there were no war.
Statement (12 September 1939), quoted in .
Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us.
"On three fronts" (3 August 1938) as quoted in .
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About this person
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.
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