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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. David Ben-Gurion דָּוִד בֶּן־גּוּרִיּוֹן Ben-Gurion in 1960 1st Prime Minister of Israel In office 3 November 1955 – 26 June 1963 President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Zalman Shazar Preceded by Moshe Sharett Succeeded by Levi Eshkol In office 17 May 1948 – 7 December 1953 ...
David Ben-Gurion gave the figure of 70–80. [18] Saleh Abd al-Jawad reports on the village's mukhtar account [19] that 455 people were missing following the al-Dawayima massacre, including 170 women and children. [10]
There were allegations that Israeli soldiers had raped Palestinian women. Ben-Gurion referred to them in his diary entry for 15 July 1948: "The bitter question has arisen regarding acts of robbery and rape [o'nes ("אונס")] in the conquered towns ...", Ben-Gurion then proceeds to write of the need to establish a special police force with ...
The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when Zionist paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, then part of Mandatory Palestine, killing at least 107 Palestinian Arab villagers, including women and children. [1] The attack was conducted primarily by the Irgun and Lehi, who were supported by the Haganah and ...
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel [2] (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708), at the end of the civil war phase and beginning of the international phase of the 1948 Palestine war, by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization [a ...
Ben-Gurion, quoting General Avner, briefly referred in his war diary to the 'rumours' that the army had 'slaughtered 70–80 persons.' One version of what happened was provided by an Israeli soldier to a Mapam member, who transmitted the information to Eliezer Peri , the editor of the party daily Al HaMishmar and a member of the party's ...
Nixon ultimately supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, a key moment that may have saved the country. “Most historians of that region think that the US munitions support was ...
David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Mapai: 14 May 1948 10 March 1949 — Prov. Mapai • Mapam • HHaM • New Aliyah • S&O • Mizrachi • Gen.Zionists • Aguda: 10 March 1949 1 November 1950 1949 (1st) 1st: Mapai • URF • Progressives • S&O • DLN: 1 November 1950 8 October 1951 2nd: 8 October 1951 24 December 1952 1951 (2nd) 3rd