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.
But even when the state came into being, Ben Gurion decided against a definitive break with rabbinical authority.
Dan Blumberg of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer Sheva, Israel, has a more forceful approach.
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 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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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.
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 .
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.
The 400 Talmud students whom Ben-Gurion exempted from army service have grown to 110, 000 able-bodied haredi men who have served neither in the regular army nor in the reserves.
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Lead researcher Dr Ronit Peled, from Ben-Gurion University, said that women who had been exposed to a number of negative events should be considered an "at-risk" group for breast cancer.
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.
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.
In 1973, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, died.
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.
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