David Ben-Gurion

Also known as David Grün, Ben-Gurion, David Ben Gurion

Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) - (born1886–1973)

OverviewAI-generated

David Ben-Gurion was a person born on October 16, 1886, and died on December 1, 1973. He is listed as an author in the Open Library database, which records 231 works attributed to him. His top works include קונגרציון, Erets yisraʾel ba-ʻavar uva-hoveh, Di yesoydes̀ fun undzer medine, ʻAl demutah shel Medinat Yiśraʾel, and La verdad sobre la Legión Judía.

In music databases, he is categorized as a person with 23 listeners and a playcount of 40 on Last.fm. Naomi Shemer is listed as a similar artist. Crossref lists five works associated with him. He is referenced by 1,809 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1886
Died: 1973
Works: 231

Top works

קונגרציון
Erets yisraʾel ba-ʻavar uva-hoveh
Di yesoydes̀ fun undzer medine
ʻAl demutah shel Medinat Yiśraʾel
La verdad sobre la Legión Judía

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Active from: 1886-10-16
Active to: 1973-12-01

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 23
Total plays: 40

Similar artists

Naomi Shemer

via Last.fm · David Ben-Gurion

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,951x
Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,831x
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,910x
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
· 1986 · cited 63,627x
Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 63,440x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“The agricultural community that the Arabs found in Eretz Israel in the 7th century was none other than the Hebrew farmers that remained on their land despite all the persecution and oppression of the Roman and Byzantine emperors.”
“The fellahin are not descendants of the Arab conquerors, who captured Eretz Israel and Syria in the seventh century CE. The Arab conquerors did not destroy the agricultural population they found in the country. They expelled only the alien Byzantine rulers and did not touch the local population. Nor did the Arabs go in for settlement”
“The greater majority and main structures of the Muslim falahin in western Eretz Israel present to us one racial strand and a whole ethnic unit, and there is no doubt that much Jewish blood flows in their veins — the blood of those Jewish farmers, “lay persons,” who chose in the travesty of times to abandon their faith in order to remain on their land.”
“Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.”
“Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.”
“The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

David Ben-Gurion (/bɛn ˈɡʊəriən/ ben GOOR-ee-ən; Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן־גּוּרִיּוֹן [daˈvid ben ɡuʁˈjon] ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was the de facto leader of the Jewish community in Palestine, and largely led the movement for an independent Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine.

Born in Płońsk, then part of Congress Poland, to Polish Jewish parents, he immigrated to the Palestine region of the Ottoman Empire in 1906. Adopting the name of Ben-Gurion in 1909, he rose to become the preeminent leader of the Jewish community in British-ruled Mandatory Palestine from 1935 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, which he led until 1963 with a short break in 1954–55. Ben-Gurion's interest for Zionism developed early in his life, leading him to become a major Zionist leader, and the executive head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “David Ben-Gurion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.