Leadership of the movement passed to the Jewish Agency in Palestine, now led by the anti-British Socialist-Zionist party ( Mapai ) and led by David Ben-Gurion.

The alliance was an attempt by Mapai to shore up the party's share of the vote following a break-away of eight MKs ( around a fifth of Mapai's Knesset faction ) led by David Ben-Gurion to form a new party, Rafi, in protest against Mapai's failure to approve a change to the country's proportional representation voting system.

The Zionist Organization was roughly composed of General Zionists, who were in the majority, followers of Jabotinsky, who came in a close second, and Labour Zionists, led by David Ben-Gurion, who comprised a minority yet had much influence where it mattered, in the Yishuv.

A combination of the crackdown and the Jewish civilian leadership's outrage at the King David attack led Ben-Gurion to call off further Palmach operations.

In 1944 a major split had occurred in Palestine's Jewish community's dominant party, Mapai, led by David Ben-Gurion.

The Reparations Agreement with Germany, signed by the David Ben-Gurion government in 1952, was the focus of intense political controversy, and the protest demonstrations led by then opposition leader Menachem Begin turned into pitched battles with the police.

Rafi was founded on 14 July 1965 when David Ben-Gurion led a breakaway of eight MKs from Mapai, the ruling party, taking with him Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres, Chaim Herzog, and Teddy Kollek, amongst others.

In the post-War period, Agudath Israel reached a modus vivendi with the State of Israel, which was predominantly led by secularists, and thus the need to secure the status quo between Ashkenazi Rabbinical leaders and David Ben-Gurion which ensured Ashkenazi Rabbinical co-ordination with the state, as well as the implementation of such guarantees, such as being Shomer Shabbat and Shomer Kashrut.

Nevertheless, the new party went into the elections with 27 seats, just seven less than Mapai, the party which had dominated Israeli politics since independence, although Mapai also had been reduced in size due to a breakaway of 8 MKs led by David Ben-Gurion to found Rafi.

20 years later, the Jewish Agency leader, David Ben-Gurion wrote: " Had partition to the Peel Commission partition plan been carried out, the history of our people would have been different and six million Jews in Europe would not have been killed — most of them would be in Israel.

The principal non-Zionist Orthodox Jewish ( or Haredi ) party, Agudat Israel, recommended to UNSCOP that a Jewish state be set up after reaching a religious status quo agreement with Ben-Gurion regarding the future Jewish state.

The next day, in a public ceremony in Tel-Aviv, Ben-Gurion read out the Israeli Declaration of Independence, naming the new country, Israel.

David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

In the end the phrase " Rock of Israel " was used, which could be interpreted as either referring to God, or the land of Eretz Israel, Ben-Gurion saying " Each of us, in his own way, believes in the ' Rock of Israel ' as he conceives it.

Ben-Gurion put forward " Israel " and it passed by a vote of 6 – 3.

Ben-Gurion concluded the event with the words " The State of Israel is established!

The question of what determines Jewish identity in the State of Israel was given new impetus when, in the 1950s, David Ben-Gurion requested opinions on mihu Yehudi (" who is a Jew ") from Jewish religious authorities and intellectuals worldwide in order to settle citizenship questions.

David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, appreciated Adenauer's response in playing down the affair and not pursuing it further, as it would have burdened the relationship between the two new states.

* Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ( Israel )

* Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ( Israel )

* May 23 – Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.

* December 1 – David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel ( b. 1886 )

* October 16 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel ( d. 1973 )

* November 5 – David Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister of Israel.

In 1964 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces ( IDF ) by Levi Eshkol, who replaced David Ben-Gurion and, like him, served as Prime-Minister and Minister of Defence.

* 1999 – Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.

June-Violent confrontation between the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) under the command of David Ben-Gurion, and the paramilitary Jewish group Irgun known as The Altalena Affair results in the dismantlement of the Irgun, Lehi, and all Israeli paramilitary organizations operating outside the IDF.

David Ben-Gurion () (,, born David Grün ; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973 ) was the main founder and the first Prime Minister of Israel.

Labor Zionism became the dominant tendency in the World Zionist Organization and in 1935 Ben-Gurion became chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish Agency, a role he kept until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

Ben-Gurion believed in the equal rights of Arabs who remained in and would become citizens of Israel.

He was a protégé of Ben-Gurion and Dayan and an early supporter of the West Bank settlers during the 1970s.

At the same time Ben-Gurion assisted the illegal immigration of thousands of European Jewish refugees to Palestine during a period when the British placed heavy restrictions on Jewish immigration.

To that end, Ben-Gurion used a firm hand during the Altalena Affair, a ship carrying arms purchased by the Irgun.

After leading Israel during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, Ben-Gurion was elected Prime Minister of Israel when his Mapai ( Labour ) party won the largest number of Knesset seats in the first national election, held on 14 February 1949.

Ben-Gurion told Rabin that at the very least, he should have obtained the support of a foreign power, as he had done during the Suez Crisis.

It was started during the tenure of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, but was completed in June 1964 under Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, at a cost of about 420 million Israeli lira ( at 1964 values ).

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala meets David Ben-Gurion during a visit to Israel

He criticized David Ben-Gurion ( who held at the time only the position of a Knesset member, but was still influential ) for being too willing to give up the territories captured during the war in return for a peace agreement.

* 1948 – Arab – Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the explusion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.

" Fire Time " gives the detailed history of a prolonged escalating conflict on a planet colonized simultaneously by humans who call it Mundomar and the nonhuman Naqsans who call it Tseyakka: The historical film of the human leader Sigurdsson declaring the independent republic of Eleutheria in the midst of war is clearly reminiscent of David Ben-Gurion declaring Israel's independence in 1948 ; in a later war, the Eleutherians conquer the Naqsan continent of G ' yaaru, rename it Sigurdssonia and establish settlements in it.

David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israeli independence from the United Kingdom on May 14, 1948

The Palmach, its three best combat units of the 1948 war, had been disbanded at Ben-Gurion ’ s instruction.

During the 1948 Arab – Israeli War Ben-Gurion oversaw the nascent state's military operations.

In this position, Ben-Gurion played a major role in the 1948 Arab – Israeli War When the IDF archives and others were opened in the late 1980s, scholars started to reconsider the events and the role of Ben-Gurion.

In his War Diaries in February 1948, Ben-Gurion wrote: " The war shall give us the land.

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, under its leader David Ben-Gurion, became the Provisional government of Israel.

On the 16 June 1948, David Ben-Gurion mentioned Manshiyya as one of the villages Israel had destroyed.

On September 26, 1948, David Ben-Gurion told his cabinet that if fighting should be renewed in the north, then the Galilee would become " clean " and " empty " of Arabs, and implied that he had been assured of this by his generals.

Benny Morris (; born 8 December 1948 ) is an Israeli professor of History in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Be ' er Sheva, Israel.

David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948.

David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, proclaims the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

" The sensitivity of this issue is indicated by the delay of two weeks before, on 26 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion, for the Provisional Government, published the Israel Defence Forces Ordinance Number 4.

In 1948, a gar ' in ( core group ) of Jewish pioneers wrote to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion requesting that members be allowed to do their military service as a group rather than being split up into different units at random.

Haredi Jews were exempt, so long as they did study in yeshivas ( up to a maximum of 62, 500 individuals ), based on an arrangement worked out with David Ben-Gurion in 1948 and the Tal Law, though small numbers volunteer to serve in the IDF, specially in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion.

David Ben-Gurion publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948

On 14 May 1948, one day before the British Mandate expired, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

Ben-Gurion emphatically rejected the return of refugees in the Israeli Cabinet decision of June 1948 reiterated in a letter to the UN of August 2, 1949 containing the text of a statement made by Moshe Sharett on August 1, 1948 where the basic attitude of the Israeli Government was that a solution must be sought, not through the return of the refugees to Israel, but through the resettlement of the Palestinian Arab refugee population in other states.

After 1948 Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the new state, had a series of confrontations with leaders of the Haganah and the Palmach.