The elections were not for the Knesset, which did not exist yet, but for the Constituent Assembly, a body tasked with ...

Indeed, David Ben-Gurion’s own son, Amos, married a woman who converted for him. (Granted, Amos met his future wife a few years before the State of Israel was established, so his father was not ...

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made a significant decision at a Provisional State Council meeting not to draft yeshiva students, setting in motion a policy that would shape Israeli society and ...

(JTA) — Thirty-eight letters and nine telegrams written by David Ben-Gurion to his lover in the 1930s will be auctioned off with a starting bid of $20,000. Israel’s Kedem Auction House will ...

Key Point: The country will likely not declare itself a nuclear power any time soon; ambiguity over ownership of nukes has served the country very well. In a private email leaked ...

With Ben Gurion Day coming up it is important to have an objective perspective on David Ben Gurion. He accomplished major feats that propelled the Jewish people to heights not seen in 2000 years ...

It allows Israelis to travel visa-free in the U.S. up to 90 days. David Ben-Gurion (help·info) (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן‎, born David Grün on 16 October 1886 ...