David Ben-Gurion's speech. (credit: Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute) Hebrew media reported on the event, stating, "The communities in the Negev have been redeemed from their isolation." ...

For the first time in decades, the writings of Israel’s founding father, David Ben-Gurion, have been republished in a new edition and presented to the country’s current and former leaders.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled Israel for 10 years, second only to David Ben-Gurion, founder of the state of Israel, whose accumulative terms spanned over 13 years. It is ...

David Ben-Gurion and Tom Segev are consequential figures in the history of Israel, one of them for making it and the other for writing about it. That’s why Segev’s new biography of Ben-Gurion ...

Premier David Ben Gurion, in his capacity of Defense Minister, has ordered Brig. Moshe Dayan, former Army Chief of Staff now on leave, to forego public appearances “in the interests of hygienic ...

Dr. James G. McDonald, left, the new U.S. ambassador to Israel, talks with Israeli President Chaim Weizmann, center, and ...

A statue of David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel, welcomes visitors to the Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev Desert, Aug. 11, 2016. A new documentary about a never-aired interview ...

Two images of the handwritten diary of David Ben-Gurion from the evening of May 14, 1948 — the day the State of Israel’s establishment was proclaimed — were released Monday ahead of Israel ...

It is only recently that David Ben-Gurion ceased to be, for the sake of the official record books, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. That honor now belongs to Benjamin Netanyahu, even as ...

November 2019 Ben-Gurion’s reality by David Pryce-Jones On A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman. I t was improbable, to say the least, that the ...