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Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion had decided on the importance of renaming in the area earlier in the year, writing in his diary in July: "We must give Hebrew names to these places – ancient names, if there are, and if not, new ones!"; [45] he subsequently established the committee's objectives with a letter to the chairman of the committee: [44]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Plan Dalet Part of 1948 Palestine war and Nakba Zones controlled by Yishuv before and after the implementation of the Plan Dalet. Type Ethnic cleansing Location Mandatory Palestine Planned by Jewish Agency and Haganah Commanded by David Ben Gurion Target Palestinian Arab villages and cities Date ...
On 14 July 1948 the IDF told Ben-Gurion that "not one Arab inhabitant" remained in Ramla or Lod, as they were now called. In fact, several hundred remained, including city workers who maintained essential city services like water service, and workers with expertise with the railroad train yards and the airport, the elderly, the ill and some ...
[citation needed] The largest single expulsion of the war began in Lydda and Ramla 14 July under Operation Dani when 60,000 inhabitants of the two cities (nearly 8.6% of the whole exodus) were forcibly expelled on the orders of David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin in events that came to be known as the "Lydda Death March".
On 7 February 1948, Ben-Gurion told the Central Committee of Mapai (the largest Zionist political party in Palestine): [94] it is most probable that in the 6, 8 or 10 coming months of the struggle many great changes will take place, very great in this country and not all of them to our disadvantage, and surely a great change in the composition ...
Immediately after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel began a process of nation-building; its first general elections were held on 25 January 1949. Chaim Weizmann was installed as Israel's first President, and David Ben-Gurion (head of the Mapai party ) attained the position of Prime minister of Israel that he had previously held in the provisional government.
[p. 289] As early as April 1948, Ben Gurion directed one of his operatives in Europe (Ehud Avriel) to seek out surviving East European Jewish scientists who could "either increase the capacity to kill masses or to cure masses: both things are important." At that time, that 'capacity' meant chemical and biological weapons ...
In December 1949, the Israeli government, headed by David Ben-Gurion, passed a resolution to build a government precinct in Jerusalem. Givat Ram, a hill in the west of the city, which had been an assembly point for the Gadna Youth Battalions, was chosen for this purpose. The topography of the site was made up of three ridges, meshed with the ...