Word: ben-gurion
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...incidentally, those founders -- David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann -- detested the Stern Gang that was implicated in terrorist bombings and assassinations. Shamir was one of its most notorious members. If Israel refuses to budge on the West Bank, it could, over time, become just another Levantine war zone pretending to be a country, in which latter-day equivalents of the Stern Gang battle with the most extremist of the Palestinians...
...Ilyushin-76 plane landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv at 5:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. EST). Israel Army radio said the plane was allowed to land after officials received a request from the Soviet Union...
...annex the West Bank; others propose an independent Palestinian state. The leader of a religious party called SHAS promises God's blessing in return for a vote, while another candidate is a former convict jailed for tossing a hand grenade into the Knesset in 1957 and wounding David Ben-Gurion. The Yemenites' Union and the Politeness Party reflect rather specialized interests...
...David Ben-Gurion, the legendary founder of Israel and the nation's Prime Minister at the time, surveyed a group of photographers who had clamored into his office to record a ceremonial event. Noting that TIME's David Rubinger was absent, Ben-Gurion quipped, "Where's the one with the ginger beard...
...modern state in 1948. Many Orthodox Jews opposed the Zionist movement, which, starting in the late 19th century, called for a return to Palestine. For them, ^ there could be no Israeli state until the appearance of the Messiah. In order to overcome such objections to nationhood, David Ben-Gurion, the country's political founder, shaped an agreement with Jewish religious leaders in 1947 that attempted to define the role of religion in Israeli life. That declaration, known as the "status quo," made several key concessions to religious authorities. Among them was a pledge that the traditional Friday- evening-to-Saturday...