David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion, born David Grün; 16 October 1886, Płońsk, Poland – 1 December 1973, Tel Aviv, Israel) was the primary founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 October 1886
CityPlonsk, Poland
CountryIsrael
hate cutting israel
We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.
country israel people
Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.
independent israel common
We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.
children lying israel
If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.
israel cleansing terrorism
We must expel Arabs and take their places.
mean israel america
When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.
israel return palestinian-refugees
We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return
war israel needs
The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.
israel intellectual enemy
The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.
israel play development
In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.
israel maintaining-the-status-quo matter
It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.
israel want kind
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland
religious israel order
In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of the people. . . . And after the nation turned back to its land with strength, it protected it steadfastly. . . .
technology israel people
Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.