It was not Labor Zionism, like the Zionism of David Ben-Gurion and his socialist followers.
On Tuesday, voters wiped out David Ben-Gurion's party as a political force in the country.
This week 59 years ago May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion read out the declaration proclaiming Israel's independence.
The winery is next to the former desert home of Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, and offers tastings in its small shop.
And from David Ben-Gurion on, all Israeli leaders have given the US a de facto veto over nearly all of Israel's military moves.
It was just a few years after the liberation of the camps that David Ben-Gurion declared the founding of the Jewish State of Israel.
In the first elections in Israeli history Arab parties ran as affiliates of the Mapai movement which was led by David Ben-Gurion, the architect of the state.
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In each of its wars, Israel has been united and galvanized by charismatic leaders who came to the fore David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir .
So it was in 1956, when Eisenhower forced David Ben- Gurion to beat a speedy retreat from the Sinai and Gaza at the end of the Suez campaign.
Even before the U.N. approved the partition of Palestine, in 1947, David Ben-Gurion, who believed that the ultra-Orthodox would become secular over the generations, quieted their objections with old-school political deals.
And this for a man who as a young officer back in the 1950s was dubbed by the then prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and later by others, as an inveterate liar.
Attentive to these vulnerabilities, David Ben- Gurion asserted that Israel's military doctrine is the twofold goal to fight wars on our enemies' territory and to end them as swiftly and as decisively as possible.
In 1973, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, died.
But he also argued that the idea of a population transfer by agreement with the Arab states if possible, but by force if necessary had been carefully considered by David Ben-Gurion and the other Zionist leaders, and hovered in the background of their actions and deliberations.
David Ben-Gurion, sensing that Israel's foundation would require a switch from guerrilla tactics to inter-state warfare, suspended all his other duties in May 1947 and spent two months in intense discussion with the officers of his fighting force, the Haganah only to realise they were even worse prepared than he thought.
It wasn't his government, but his bitterest rival's, (David) Ben-Gurion and the others.
Labour -- the party once led by David Ben Gurion, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin -- was in danger of collapse two months ago.
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