But even when the state came into being, Ben Gurion decided against a definitive break with rabbinical authority.
He was welcomed at Ben Gurion airport, Tel Aviv, by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.
In a follow-on report, it placed a spotlight on the situation at Ben Gurion University's Politics and Government Department.
It gave Ben Gurion University until April to enact the required changes in its Politics and Government Department or shut its doors.
As to Ben Gurion University, the commission said the Politics and Government Department needs to clean up its act or be shut down.
Bush and the first lady were greeted at Ben Gurion International Airport by Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, as well as most of Israel's Cabinet and religious leaders.
Conversely, travellers with Israeli citizenship or dual citizenship between Israel and another country are not allowed to enter via the Allenby Bridge crossing and must enter via the Ben Gurion International Airport.
"The adrenaline became very high and people began hitting the ball very, very hard, " says Gideon Nevo, a professor of Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University, who gave up squash for matkot.
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Security checks at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport are known around the world as some of the most exhaustive and thorough, and this is one more layer that travelers should be aware of.
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The techie airport security systems now all the rage are old hat at EDS. It installed a handprint-authentication system in 1998 that allows citizens to clear immigration in seconds at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport.
Its downtown is a wholly different place, with chic Middle Eastern restaurants along Ben Gurion Avenue, freshly planted palm trees in Paris Square and throngs of tourists skipping off cruise ships in the renovated port.
The techie airport security systems that are all the rage are old hat at EDS. It installed a handprint-authentication system in 1998 that allows citizens to clear immigration in seconds at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport.
"Israeli Police will be implementing measures inside and around Ben Gurion airport from the weekend in order to deal with the arrival of activists into the country, " Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told CNN .
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Immediately after his arrival in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured an Iron Dome battery at Ben Gurion International Airport in a vivid display of U.S. security assistance to Israel.
In the late 1940s, when Zionism was a mainly secular movement, David Ben Gurion was willing to accept an international status for the city as part of the price the Jews might have to pay for statehood.
The next day, May 28, 1991, I stepped off an El Al plane at Ben Gurion Airport, and before reaching the passport check, I walked up the stairs of the old terminal building to the Ministry of Absorption's offices and officially made aliyah.
It will be interesting to see how events progress at Ben Gurion in the coming months, but one thing is clear enough, like Friedman and the Berkeley Hillel, its professors will no longer be able to pretend that they are fair and balanced professionals.
It was not Labor Zionism, like the Zionism of David Ben-Gurion and his socialist followers.
During the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 Ben-Gurion forbade the army to conquer the West Bank.
The project was initiated by Tzvi Ganel, from the neuroscience center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Dan Blumberg of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer Sheva, Israel, has a more forceful approach.
It wasn't his government, but his bitterest rival's, (David) Ben-Gurion and the others.
Last month the University of Johannesburg narrowly defeated a motion to cancel its water desalination research agreement with Ben-Gurion University.
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.
Dr. Becker was a Kreitman Scholar and post-doctoral fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel from 1996 to 1997.
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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.
Mr Morris based this claim on Ben-Gurion's own speeches and writings.
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 .
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