David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of David Ben-Gurion
Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Government of Israel, 1948–53, 1955–63. Author of The Struggle and others.
photograph: Horst Tappe/Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.
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Theodor Herzl was the founder of the political form of Zionism, a movement to establish a Jewish homeland. His pamphlet The Jewish State (1896) proposed that the Jewish question was a political question to be settled by a world council of nations. He organized a world congress of Zionists that met…
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