Dimona is home to Israel's Black Hebrew community, governed by its founder and spiritual leader, Ben Ammi Ben-Israel.

Ben Ammi

; 1969: First group of African Hebrew Israelites begin to migrate to Israel under the leadership of Ben Ammi Ben Israel.

The nearby lands are cultivated ; a banana grove belongs to the Ben Ammi settlement.

The group was founded in Chicago by a former steel worker named Ben Carter ( b. 1939 ), who took the name Ben Ammi upon joining the Hebrew Israelite community in Chicago.

Denouncing the name Ben Carter and calling it his " slave name ," Ben Ammi says that in 1966 he had a " vision ," in which the Archangel Gabriel called him to take his people, African Americans, back to the Holy Land of Israel.

Ben Ammi and 350 of his followers first settled in Liberia in 1967.

Ben Ammi accused the government of racism and usurping the holy land, while claiming that " The greatest conspiracy ever conceived in the minds of men was the creation of National Homeland for Jewish People .".

Although the leader Bayard Rustin called Ben Ammi " a dictator " without " the same moral standards as democratic leaders ", the others disassociated themselves from this.

The core of the group's lifestyle is the Tanakh, Ben Ammi claims that " the Law and the Prophets ... are the light ; they are the essence of what is required to set man on the path and show him the way back to his Maker.

Ben Ammi claims that Africans are the victims of " a cruel plot to control us, an international religious plot that came about as a result of Blacks disobeying the law and commandments of God.

On several occasions Ben Ammi and the community have been accused of anti-semitism.

As well as denying the Israelite heritage of world Jewry and its claim to the land of Israel, the stalemate between the community and Israel in the late 70s led to heightened tensions and according to the Jerusalem Post, " Ben Ammi mounted a worldwide public-relations offensive against the government that dripped with anti-semitism.

During an interview with Haaretz, a popular Israeli newspaper, Ben Ammi stated that " We must understand that peace will never come, and true freedom will never come, by way of politicians ...

In April of 2011, Ben Ammi led a 7-member delegation to South Africa to engage in discussions with His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini and the South African Government to explore options of replicating the " Dimona Model " for community development in the country.

* Ben ' Ammi, part i., St. Petersburg, 1887

Ben Ammi Ben Israel established the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966.

In 1969, after a sojourn in Liberia, Ben Ammi and about 30 Hebrew Israelites moved to Israel.

Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah ( Andrews ) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.

* Ben Darwin ( born 1976 ), Australian international Rugby player

Robeson had three brothers, William Drew, Jr. ( born 1881 ), Reeve ( born c. 1887 ), and Ben ( born c. 1893 ), and one sister, Marian ( born c. 1895 ).

* George Astaphan, born in St. Kitts, was a physician who gave steroids to the sprinter Ben Johnson.

Harriet Tubman was born Araminta " Minty " Ross to slave parents, Harriet (" Rit ") Green and Ben Ross.

They married around 1808, and according to court records, they had nine children together: Linah, born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph in 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty ( Harriet ) in 1822, Ben in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Moses in 1832.

Milford H. Wolpoff ( born 1942 to Ruth ( Silver ) and Ben Wolpoff, Chicago ) is a paleoanthropologist, and since 1977, a professor of anthropology and adjunct associate research scientist, Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

* Ben Dover ( born 1955 ), English pornographic actor and director

* Ben Sherman ( 1925 – 1987, born Arthur Benjamin Sugarman ), British clothing company founder

* Ben Spies ( born 1984 ), American motorcycle road racer

* Ben Johnson ( American football ) ( born 1980 ), former American football offensive tackle of the National Football League

* Ben Johnson ( artist ) ( born 1946 ), British painter

* Ben Johnson ( catcher ) ( born 1981 ), Minor League Baseball catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers organization, see 2010 Nashville Sounds season

* Ben Johnson ( cricketer ) ( born 1973 ), Australian cricketer

* Ben Johnson ( footballer ) ( born 1981 ), Australian rules footballer

* Ben Johnson ( musician ) ( born 1984 ), American musician, member of the band 100 Monkeys

* Ben Johnson ( outfielder ) ( born 1981 ), American Major League Baseball outfielder

* Ben Johnson ( pitcher ) ( born 1931 ), American former Major League Baseball pitcher

* Ben Johnson ( soccer ) ( born 1977 ), American soccer player

* Ben Johnson ( sprinter ) ( born 1961 ), Canadian sprinter

* Children ( 8 ): Gwendolyn Gail ( 1935 – 1976 ), Sue ( 1937 – 1978 ), Bill ( 1939 – 1962 ), Cathy Ann ( 1943 – 1947 ), Arlo Davy ( 1947 –), Joady Ben ( 1948 –), Nora ( 1950 –), Lorinna Lynn ( 1954 – 1973 )

The film was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production since leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 ( the first was Rebecca ) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film.

* Ladies and Gentlemen ( 1939 ), ( with Ben Hecht ), made into Perfect Strangers, film of 1950

He established the syndicated comic strip Mortimer & Charlie, which ran in newspapers from July 1939 to May 1940, illustrated first by Ben Batsford and then by Carl Buettner.

In 1939, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo settled in St Ives, attracted by its beauty.

Fred was the son of Sam's younger sister, Manya ( who, despite the best efforts of Sam and his brother Ben in 1939 and 1940, could not be extricated from the Warsaw Ghetto and perished in the Holocaust ).

Writer-artist Ben Thompson adapted the pulp story " King of Fang and Claw " by Bob Byrd for Goodman's first comic book, Marvel Comics # 1 ( Oct. 1939 ).

According to historian Ben Macintyre, Cholmondeley got the idea from a 1939 memo written by Ian Fleming, later author of the James Bond novels.

* Gerrit Horsten / Ben Tap ( 1939 – 43 )

The original Shure 55 Unidyne microphone was designed by engineer Ben Bauer and first produced in 1939.

The screenplay for the Warner Bros. release by Edith Sommer was based on an adaptation of the 1939 Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play Ladies and Gentlemen by George Oppenheimer.

Anthony Green was born September 30, 1939 in Luton, Bedfordshire, and educated at Highgate School, London ( where he was taught by Kyffin Williams ) and the Slade School of Art ( where he first met lifelong friend and fellow RA Ben Levene ).

* the classic Westclox " Big Ben " alarm clock ( 1939 )

Everett Ben " Chris " Krug ( born December 25, 1939 in Los Angeles, California ) is a former Major League Baseball catcher.

* Ben Hecht ( 1894 – 1964 ): Twentieth Century ( 1934 ), A Star Is Born ( 1937 ), Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Stagecoach ( 1939 ), Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 ), Cornered ( 1945 ), Gilda ( 1946 ), Rope and Cry of the City ( 1948 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), Angel Face ( 1952 ), and Cleopatra ( 1963 ).

Hare-um Scare-um is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton, and first released on August 12, 1939 by Warner Bros.

* Ben Wilson ( American football ) ( born 1939 ), former professional American football player