David Ben-Gurion
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First Prime Minister of Israel, 1948–1954 and 1955–1963
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David Ben-Gurion was Prime Minister of Israel from May 1949 to January 1954, and from November 1955 to June 1963.[1]
Career
- 1905 Joined Poale Zion
- 1914-18 War - Jewish Legion
- general secretary of the Histadrut
- 1935 Head of the Jewish Agency
- 1946 Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization
- 1948–1954 Leader of Mapai
- 1955–1963 Leader of Mapai
- 1965–1968 Leader of Rafi
- 1968–1970 Leader of the National List
Lebanon and the Litani, 1948
On 24 May 1948 Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary that the Carmeli Brigade's "role is to occupy southern Lebanon – assisted by the bombing of Tyre, Sidon, and Beirut". He continued: "Lebanon is the weak link in the Arab coalition. The Muslim government is artificial and easy to destabilize. A Christian state should be established with the Litani [River] as its southern border. We'll form an alliance with it."[2] In 2026 Israeli ministers called for the Litani River to be Israel's northern border; see Greater Israel and Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon (2024–present).
External resources
- Shay Hazkani, Catastrophic thinking: Did Ben-Gurion try to rewrite history?, Haaretz, 16 May 2013.
Notes
- ↑ All Prime Ministers of Israel, knesset.gov.il, accessed 25 March 2012.
- ↑ David Ben-Gurion, Diary, 24 May 1948 The Ben-Gurion Archive, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, accessed 22 October 2026 (Israeli-side).