Ben-Gurion, David

An Israeli political leader of the twentieth century. Active in the movements toward the formation of Israel in the early twentieth century, he was chosen to be the country's first prime minister , and he served until the early 1960s. ( See Arab-Israeli conflict .)

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In 1965 David Ben-Gurion, for all intents and purposes the founder of the state, led a breakaway group from Mapai to form Rafi.

As David Ben-Gurion liked to say, “Our future does not depend on what gentiles say but on what Jews do.”

Early leaders, notably David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, were outspoken critics of apartheid.

The system that confronts Holocaust survivors here has changed little since the days of David Ben-Gurion.

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