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David Ben-Gurion

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Ben-Gurion, David 

Born Oct. 16, 1886, in Plonsk, Poland. Israeli political figure.

Ben-Gurion graduated from the law faculty of the University of Istanbul. One of the leaders of the Zionist movement, he was prime minister and defense minister from 1948 to 1953 and from 1955 to 1963, with an interruption in 1961. He was an organizer and head of the right-socialist Zionist party Mapai. In 1965 he founded a new party, Rafi, from the most extremist elements of the Mapai Party. An adherent of the expansionist course in Israel’s policy, he is one of the instigators of aggressive ventures against Arab countries.



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We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p.
recounts how David Ben-Gurion, isolated because of his support for the secret nuclear weapons program and arming to fight Arabs, stepped down as prime minister of Israel in June 1963; struggled to regain power for four years; was vindicated in 1967 by the Six-Day War; and was put out on the street again on the seventh day.
Name: David ben-Gurion Home: Woodland Hills Age: 42 Occupation: Computer programmer One idea: Ben-Gurion bought 50,000 shares of Cytomedix Inc.
 
 
 
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