David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion · Israel & Modern Innovation
First Prime Minister of Israel
1886, Płońsk, Poland (then Russian Empire) — 1973, Ramat Gan, Israel
Poland · Ottoman/Mandatory Palestine · Israel
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David Ben-Gurion was a Zionist leader who directed the pre-state Jewish community, read out Israel's Declaration of Independence in May 1948, and served as the country's first prime minister and defence minister. He shaped the young state's institutions, army and immigration policy. He was Jewish, raised in a Zionist Jewish family in Poland.
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First Prime Minister of Israel
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