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.

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It was not Labor Zionism, like the Zionism of David Ben-Gurion and his socialist followers.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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In 1973, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, died.

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It wasn't his government, but his bitterest rival's, (David) Ben-Gurion and the others.

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