| Name: |
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David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973)
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| Title: |
Former Prime Minister of Israel (1949-1953 /
1955-1963) |
| Position: |
Pro Israeli Statehood
to the question "What are the solutions to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict?" |
| Reasoning: |
"This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.
Thus members and representatives of the Jews of Palestine and of the Zionist movement upon the end of the British Mandate, by virtue of 'natural and historic right' and based on the United Nations resolution ... Hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in the land of Israel to be known as the State of Israel."
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Credibility
Ranking: |
Experts
Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Counsul
Generals, heads of government, members of legislative bodies, and Ph.D.'s
with significant involvement in, or related to, the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict. |
| Involvement: |
First Israeli Prime Minister 1949-1953 / 1955-1963
Defense Minister 1949-1953
Passed the resolution to declare the independence of Israel on May 14, 1948
Chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, 1935
Creator of Mapai, the Zionist Labor Party, 1930
Creator of the Haganah
(paramilitary force of the Labor Zionist
movement), 1921
General secretary of the Histadrut Labor Federation,
1921 |
| Education: |
Hebrew
School |
Affiliations/
Honors: |
None
listed |
| Contact
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| Phone: None listed |
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Other:
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Select Publications:
Di Histadrut in Kamf UN Boyen, 2002
DOS Bukh Fun Ferat, 2002 Ben Gurion Looks Back: In Talks with Moshe Pearlman, 1988
Jews in Their Land, (editor), 1974My Talks with Arab Leaders, 1973Ben-Gurion Looks at the Bible, 1972Letters to Paula, 1971
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