David Ben Gurion

David Ben Gurion

Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

Jerusalem Still Ground Zero in Middle East Tensions

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

PASADENA, CA -- 07/23/08 -- According to Mid-East scholar David Hulme, merely looking at

Eric Silver o"h

My Right Word (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008

''Menachem Begin governed Israel for six years and three months,'' writes Eric Silver, an English journalist, near the close of this incisive biography, ''which made him the longest-serving Prime Minister after the founding father David Ben-Gurion. He revealed himself as a complex, but not a mysterious, man, a paradox but not a puzzle: an unrepentant terrorist who won the Nobel Peace...

Two Interesting Posts....

Wolfish Musings (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

Josh Waxman over at Parshablog has an interesting post which discusses who was the better candidate to be moshiach : Rabbi Schneerson or David ben-Gurion. This is exactly the type of post that is sure to stir up the bees in some people's bonnets. Professor Tyler Williams over at Codex has some posts (and pictures) about Hebrew tattoos that have gone horribly wrong . The Wolf

Holidays for Gardeners: Mark Your Calendar!

Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008

... first day of February, schoolchildren plant saplings throughout Israel . In 1949, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion said of this holiday, called TuBishvat , “Of all the blessed acts in which we are engaged in this country, I do not know if there is a more fruitful enterprise, whose results are so useful, as the planting of trees, which adds beauty to the scenery of our country, improves...

Talented singer and spiritual leader Abikzer to retire

New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008

He was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and has sung before Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, David Ben-Gurion and the Knesset in Jerusalem.

Talented singer and spiritual leader Abikzer to retire

http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008

MSNBC He was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and has sung before Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, David Ben-Gurion and the Knesset in Jerusalem. He has recorded more than 60 albums in Hebrew, Ladino and Arabic. … Read the full article here

The Kurds, Israel, and the Future of Syria

Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008

Joseph Puder FrontPageMagazine.com 6/27/2008 Israel has a longstanding relationship with the Kurdish people. In the early 1960’s, Mustafa Barzani and his Peshmerga fighters received training and support in the Jewish State. David Ben Gurion, then Israel’s Prime Minister, possessed an acute vision and understanding of the regional geopolitics – so lacking in today’s realities. He reasoned...

Canadian PM: Israel's right to self-defense unshakable

Ynet News (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008

... to receive the award. The Other SideArabs want UN to condemn West Bank construction / Yitzhak BenhorinLibya asks Security Council to condemn Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, settlements"Today, there is no longer any hesitation or ambiguity in Canada's position," he said, calling Israel a "friend and ally." Harper thanked the organizers of the benefit for the medal, which has previously been...

Where’s Yosseleh? – A Progress Report from Israel

Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008

It was 1960 when the entire State of Israel was looking for Yosseleh, a young immigrant from the USSR, now the Former Soviet Union. He disappeared and efforts by his parents to locate him made their way to the office of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. It appears that Yossi was sent by his grandfather, Nachman Shtarkes, [...]

University investigating swastikas carved in dorm

Ynet News (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008

Swastikas carved on notice boards in dormitory of Ben Gurion University in Beersheba. Students: Incident was racial plot carried out by dorm residents

More fun in the desert - Sde Boker, Israel

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Sde Boker, Israel The next activity was to visit Kibuttz Sde Boker in the Negev. This is where Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, retired after his service to the State of Israel. We saw is house and his grave site. After this we went to a Bedouin tent village... actually a tourist village. Bedouins are nomadic peoples that have lived...

Review: Golda's Balcony

Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008

... warehouse? -- on which are flashed up photos of the men in her life: her meek Denver husband, David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, King Abdullah. is a fine actress. She won numerous awards for this performance and the show ran for seventeen months on Broadway. Her Golda is a grimly outlined character, though, apart from a briefly hilarious, mumbling impersonation of Henry Kissinger. She’s...

It's "Zionist Lies Week" at MPAC-UK!

Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008

MPAC-UK, whose site we visit from time to time, is currently devoting a series of posts to refuting the "Top 10 Zionist Lies." Let's sample some of the truth served up by MPAC:Here are some more evident quotes by, David Ben-Gurion - Prime Minister of Israel: "We must expel Arabs and take their places." David Ben Gurion, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford...

It's "Zionist Lies Week" at MPAC-UK!

Judeopundit (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008

MPAC-UK, whose site we visit from time to time , is currently devoting a series of posts to refuting the "Top 10 Zionist Lies." Let's sample some of the truth served up by MPAC: Here are some more evident quotes by, David Ben-Gurion - Prime Minister of Israel: "We must expel Arabs and take their places." David Ben Gurion, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs,...

• It's "Zionist Lies Week" at MPAC-UK! - Soccer Dad