David Ben-Gurion

Showing some respect: Places around the world named after famous Israelis

At a time when the word "Israel" evokes controversy and extreme hostility in many places, it is moving to recall eras and locations where Israelis were actually a source of admiration.

In April 2004, about nine years after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, an emotional official ceremony took place in the heart of Berlin to commemorate Israel’s fifth prime minister. Yitzhak-Rabin-Straße.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a Starlink device as he addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 24, 2026

Netanyahu, the self-fulfilling prophet of Israel’s isolation - opinion

Candace Owens speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Detroit, Michigan, June, 14, 2024; illustrative.

Political language has become a weapon against the truth and Israel - opinion

 Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu attends a protest in Tel Aviv, November 27, 2024

What do the Altalena and the Heritage Ministry have to do with the approaching elections? - opinion


Gilboa Pimping Affair: Israel shouldn't see prostitution as 'normal' - opinion

I am sure that Golda is turning over in her grave, and I hope Ben-Gurion is as well, with the advent of this sick pimping of Jewish Israeli women to Palestinian Arab security prisoners, or at all.

 PIMP? GILBOA Prison warden Freddy Ben-Sheetrit arrives for testimony, in Modi’in, July 26.

Menachem Begin's legacy and today's Likud party - comment

Begin was representative of a generation of Jews for whom the Holocaust and the struggle for independence were formative experiences.  

 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU walks in front of a poster of Menachem Begin at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem.

Israel must become the state for all its citizens - opinion

Israel's Declaration of Independence states: The State of Israel will ensure complete equality to all of its citizens regardless of religion, race or gender. 

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declares Israel an independent state in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948

God is in Israel's Declaration of Independence - opinion

It is clear from the Tanach that “Rock of Israel” is an expression of our steadfast faith in God as our rock, our strength and our protector.

 DAVID BEN-GURION reads the Declaration of Independence on Friday, May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv.

Did David Ben-Gurion decline into dementia?

I had direct contact with B-G, which today, in hindsight, seems to indicate that he was already in the initial stage.

 David Ben-Gurion takes former Canadian premier Lester B. Pearson for a walk around Sde Boker on December 5, 1968.

'A gold standard for aliyah' Zionism in the face of Israel-hatred today

I like to recall my own epiphany: that moment when I knew I would live in Israel.

THE GOLD family gathering at Kibbutz Nir Etzion.

Israel’s plight: An absence of leadership

Last month, voters went to the polls for the fourth time in two years.

Netanyahu and Lapid

Does Israel still have values after its fourth elections? - opinion

For many decades, Israeli politics was a battle royale of ideas between the Labor Party, led in large by David Ben-Gurion and his successors and the Herut/Likud Party led by Menachem Begin.

Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, lunches with Ezer Weizman and Menachem Begin at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel on December 11, 1967

Students from Israel, Ben-Gurion's hometown in Poland do joint project

Despite the great distance between the two schools, they still teamed up to teach students about leadership inspired by the work of Israel's first prime minister.

Knesset exhibit: David Ben-Gurion 1954

Ben-Gurion did what he said he would do

Ben-Gurion treated the Knesset with respect, honored the forms as well as the content of democracy.

Teddy Kollek with Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, on the Kinneret