Ben-Gurion saw the future as dependent on the Ottoman regime.

Following the Six-Day War, Ben-Gurion criticized what he saw as the government's apathy towards the construction and development of the city.

According to Ami Isseroff, the Program was " a crucial step in the development of the Zionist movement, which increasingly saw itself as opposed to Britain rather than a collaborator of Britain, and it determined that henceforth Ben-Gurion and the Zionist Executive in Palestine, rather than Weizmann would lead the Zionist movement and determine policy toward the British.

At a Mapai Centre meeting, 24 July 1948, Ben-Gurion accused Mapam of hypocrisy, citing events at Mishmar HaEmek, he said: " They faced a cruel reality ... saw that there was one way and that was to expel the Arab villagers and burn the villages.

Notwithstanding Sharett's advice that broadcasting this version would make Israel appear patently " ridiculous ", on October 19 Ben-Gurion publicly asserted that the raid had been carried out by Israeli civilians.

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

In 2010, a new student dormitory was funded and built by the Jewish Federation of Toronto, the Rashi Foundation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the municipality of Eilat.

Ben-Gurion believed that the sparsely populated and barren Negev desert offered a great opportunity for the Jews to settle in Palestine with minimal obstruction of the Arab population, and set a personal example by settling in kibbutz Sde Boker at the centre of the Negev.

* One of Israel's major universities, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, located in Beersheva, is named after him.

Kibbutz-born Ehud Barak was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001, and David Ben-Gurion lived most of his life in Tel Aviv, but joined Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev after resigning as Prime Minister in 1953.

The desert is home to the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, whose faculties include the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research and the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, both located on the Midreshet Ben-Gurion campus adjacent to Sde Boker.

* Ilan Ramon Youth Physics Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba

More recently, in 1945, it is said that Shimon Peres ( called Shimon Persky at the time ) and David Ben-Gurion found a nest of Bearded Vultures in the Negev desert.

After completing his service in the IDF, Shalom attended Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, from which he received a BA in Economics as well as a CPA.

Category: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni

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.

Yisrael Galili, the Haganah Chief of Staff, and Yigal Allon, the Palmach commander, chose Sarig to command the brigade in December 1947, although the residents of the Negev and David Ben-Gurion appointed Shaul Avigur instead, without Sarig's knowledge.

After Avigur toured the Negev, he told Ben-Gurion that he would not be able to command the brigade, citing deteriorating health, and praised Sarig.

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ( BGU,, Universitat Ben Gurion Banegev, ) is a university in Beersheva, Israel.

After Ben-Gurion's death in 1973, the University was renamed Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Major research institutes include the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research with the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, and the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism.

* Ben-Gurion University of the Negev website

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* A desert research center, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, near his " hut " in Kibbutz Sde Boker has been named in his honor.

He also oversaw the construction of the Soroka Medical Center and helped establish the Negev University, later renamed in honor of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister and a proponent of developing the Negev desert.

Just before he left office, prime minister David Ben-Gurion also announced that the country had built a nuclear reactor outside the desert town of Dimona.

In 1907, having been working picking oranges at Petah Tikvah, Ben-Gurion moved to the settlements in Galilee where he worked as an agricultural labourer and withdrew from politics.

The Ben-Gurion House, where he lived from 1931 on, and for part of each year after 1953, is now a museum in Tel Aviv.

* An English heritage blue plaque marks where Ben-Gurion lived in London at 75 Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale, Westminster, W9.

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.

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.

They married in 1917 at New York City's Municipal Building before returning to Palestine where Ben-Gurion enlisted as a soldier in the new Jewish Legion of World War I.

He then returned to Israel, where he spent several years working in the Prime Minister's Office under David Ben-Gurion.

In 1924, Ya ' ari and Hushi arrived in Danzig, where they attended two conferences ; the Hashomer Hatzair conference and the " Youth Covenant " movement conference ( which David Ben-Gurion also attended ).

Interior of Dizengoff house, now Independence Hall ( Israel ) | Independence Hall, where David Ben-Gurion | Ben Gurion declared Israeli independence on 14 May 1948

In 1949, Jacobson visited Israel, where he met with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and President Chaim Weizmann.

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.

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 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.

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.

After telling the audience " I shall now read to you the scroll of the Establishment of the State, which has passed its first reading by the National Council ", Ben-Gurion proceeded to read out the declaration, taking 16 minutes, ending with the words " Let us accept the Foundation Scroll of the Jewish State by rising " and calling on Rabbi Fishman to recite the Shehecheyanu blessing.

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, leader of Mapai and head of the Jewish Agency became Israel's first Prime Minister.

David Ben-Gurion also considered that Hebron was the one sector of the conquered territories that should remain under Jewish control, and have a large Jewish settlement.

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.

Ben-Gurion led Israel during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, and united the various Jewish militias into the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ).

The city, which had a large Jewish community, impressed Ben-Gurion who called it " a Jewish city that has no equal in the world ".

Ben-Gurion in his Jewish Legion uniform, 1918

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.

During the 1936 – 1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Ben-Gurion instigated a policy of restraint (" Havlagah ") in which the Haganah and other Jewish groups did not retaliate for Arab attacks against Jewish civilians, concentrating only on self-defense.

In 1937, the Peel Commission recommended partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab areas and Ben-Gurion supported this policy.

During the Second World War, Ben-Gurion encouraged the Jewish population to volunteer for the British Army.

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.