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Sharon's lifelong militarism is often mistaken for lifelong rightism. In fact, he spent his military career in the bosom of Mapai, the precursor to the Labor Party, as a favorite of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister. Sharon remained close to those in Labor, especially his friend Shimon Peres. Sharon served as a special adviser to Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the mid-1970s...
Sharon, now a general, speaks with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion during a tour of army posts along the border with Egypt...
Doctors will probably still find reasons to give injections, but a new drug-delivery system approved by the FDA could take the pain out of at least some of them. The device, called the SonoPrep, developed by researchers at M.I.T. and Israel's Ben-Gurion University, delivers medication through tiny pores in the skin. It uses ultrasound waves to create temporary microchannels in the skin through which drugs can pass. The device was approved as a way to anesthetize the skin with lidocaine cream to prepare patients, especially children, for painful procedures like the insertion of catheters and IV lines...
...could total 3,000 by the end of this year. The Israeli government is receptive: in July, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set off a diplomatic flap when he called on French Jews to "move to Israel as early as possible," and later welcomed 200 new French immigrants at Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv to "the only place where you can be safe." Most who make the move blame rising anti-Semitism. Jews have historically struggled in France, from the 13th century Trial of the Talmud to persecution during the Nazi occupation; but they have also flourished, providing two French...
...Truman's mind was made up. At 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion read a 979-word declaration of independence in front of a small audience at the Tel Aviv Art Museum. He finished, "The state of Israel is established! The meeting is ended." At midnight, British rule over Palestine lapsed; 11 minutes later White House spokesman Charlie Ross announced U.S. recognition. "God put you in your mother's womb," the Chief Rabbi of Israel later told Truman, "so you would be the instrument to bring the rebirth of Israel." With Truman's decision, the hopes of the Jewish people were...