Armed with a camera and tape recorder, he spent decades preserving the ancient traditions of nomadic Middle Eastern tribes. By Isabel Kershner The union, which predates Israel’s founding, led a strike ...

Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had a twin brother who died soon after birth, according to a document recently found in Plonsk, Poland, his native town. The document — a birth ...

Appealing for party discipline and warning against factional dissension within the ranks of the Palestine Jewish Labor Party, David Ben-Gurion today delivered a two-hour address at the opening session ...

Americans in search of hope and optimism amid Israel’s multifront war as well as surging antisemitism on the home front can find it on Dec. 8 through “Ben-Gurion Day in the USA,” Americans for ...

In “Ben-Gurion on Judicial Reform” (Politics & Ideas, Aug. 2), William Galston quotes Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s 1949 statement that it was impossible to “delegate authority to the ...

Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illluminating, edifying and sometimes ...

For the first time ever, Ben-Gurion Day, an annual holiday in Israel, will be celebrated in the United States on November 30, 2022. Led by Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU), the inaugural ...

Peres, president and former prime minister of Israel, provides an intriguing and intimate political biography of David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), Israel’s first prime minister and his erstwhile mentor.

The tiny Republic of Israel was rocked last week by the most sensational political row in its twelve-year history. But Israelis themselves could not be sure what the row was about—or even which side ...

David Ben-Gurion, 79, has been of two minds about Levi Eshkol, 70. First, he named him heir to Israel and the Mapai Party. Then, two years later, he proclaimed Eshkol “unfit to govern,” and announced ...

Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. By Elisabeth ...