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Palestinian hatred is caused by Palestinians

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There is a quote falsely attributed to first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: “We must expel the Arabs and take their places. … And if we have to use force—not to dispossess the Arabs...
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion speaking in the Knesset on Jan, 1, 1957. Credit: National Photo Archive via Wikimedia Commons.

Historic scroll found at Ben-Gurion House ‘shines with the Zionist story’

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A scroll presented to Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, during a tree-planting ceremony in 1949 was recently found at Ben-Gurion House in Tel Aviv. The scroll was presented to Ben-Gurion by students at the...
Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, walks between his cabin at Kibbutz Sde Boker and the Midreshet Ben-Gurion school. Credit: Micha Baram/Archive.

Visitors to Sde Boker will soon be able to walk in Ben-Gurion’s footsteps

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In honor of the anniversary of the passing of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, the Ramat HaNegev Regional Council recently decided to build a new promenade in his memory along...
The graves of first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and his wife, Paula, near their residence in Sde Boker in the Negev Desert. Credit: David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons.

Ben-Gurion Day to honor Jewish state’s founding father, host of Israeli achievers

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will commemorate Ben-Gurion Day on Nov. 10 with an awards ceremony attended by Israeli President Isaac Herzog on the BGU Marcus Family Campus. On the same day, Americans for...

October 16, 1886: David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, was born

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On October 16, 1886, Israel’s future inaugural prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, was born in Płońsk, Poland. Originally known as David Gruen, Ben-Gurion was born to Victor Gruen, one of the leaders of the Hovevei Zion movement,...

What would Ben-Gurion do?

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My colleague, Nave Dromi, disagrees with my negative view of Israel’s annexing some parts of the West Bank. My six-part argument, as spelled out here, boils down to dismissing annexation as too-expensive symbolism. It brings no...

The Rabbi Behind the Founding of the Jewish State

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Upon the establishment of the State of Israel, Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaKohen Maimon became the first Minister of Religious Affairs of Medinat Yisrael – the State of Israel. Perhaps more than anyone else, it...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an event honoring outstanding Israel Defense Forces’ reservists at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on July 1, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

As Netanyahu strides by a longevity record, his biggest challenges may lie ahead

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History will be made on July 20 as Benjamin Netanyahu, 69, becomes the longest-serving prime minister that the nation—only two years older than he—has seen. Israel’s founding father and first premier, David Ben-Gurion, served in...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrates at the Likud Party headquarters in Tel Aviv after the announcement of the election results on April 9, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

On July 20, Netanyahu to become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister

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When the clock strikes midnight on Saturday, July 20, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make history as the State of Israel’s longest-serving premier, surpassing the previous record-holder, David Ben-Gurion. Serving from June 18, 1996, to...
A postcard written and signed by Israel’s founding father and first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, the very day after he officially declared the State of Israel’s independence on May 14, 1948, was recently discovered, May 2019. Credit: Kedem Auction House.

Postcard discovered of David Ben-Gurion writing, ‘State of Israel has been born!’

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A postcard written and signed by Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, just one day after officially declaring the State of Israel’s independence, was recently discovered. Dated on the sixth day of the Hebrew...