Topic: David Ben-Gurion. Jump to. Latest Headlines Quotes. David Ben-Gurion News. World News // 6 years ago. Israeli lawmakers back Netanyahu to form government.

I stood at the northernmost tip of Israel, just behind the border with Lebanon. A pale-grey concrete wall divided the two countries. Just a few yards away, on the other side, a road snaked into the ...

The retelling of history, like a Hindu god, takes many forms. The narrative of the life of David Ben-Gurion, the iconic figure in the pantheon of Zionist leaders, has been told, retold and over-told.

A photograph captures the squat, white-haired David Ben-Gurion, ... Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire, a German ally, went to war against one another in November 1914, ...

I t was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.

In August 1906, a 19-year-old Polish Jew called David Gruen boarded a ship in Odessa and came ashore at Jaffa nine days later. He headed for Petah Tikvah, one of the first Zionist settlements in ...

He landed in Palestine, ruled at the time by the Ottoman Empire, ... Tom Segev explores the life of David Ben-Gurion. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel By Anita Shapira Yale University Press, 288 pages, $25 Another book on David Ben-Gurion? Many are the studies of the iconic Zionist leader — Shabtai Teveth ...