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This is the biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father, written by his official biographer, Dr. Michael Bar-Zohar, published so far in fourteen languages throughout the world, recently updated by the author. This is a political, as well as a personal biography. Dr. Bar-Zohar spent nine years with David Ben-Gurion and six more years writing this biography. It served as a basis to a 90 minutes documentary, entitled "B.G.remembers."

Translated and condensed from an acclaimed Hebrew study, this is a major revisionist work by one of Israel's leading journalists and author of a multivolume biography of David Ben-Gurion. In the 42 years between 1921 and 1963--during which he served as labor leader, Zionist statesman, and Prime Minister of an independent Israel--Ben-Gurion's influence grew to have a decisive effect upon Jewish policy. Israel came to view the Arabs, to a great extent, through the eyes of David Ben-Gurion. From the outset, he was one of the few leaders of Labor Zionism who sought to anchor the Jewish right to Palestine in something other than historical argument and nationalist myth, Shabtai Teveth writes. But his views have been misinterpreted, derived almost exclusively from his public pronouncements. Teveth delves below the surface of Ben-Gurion's public and diplomatic stance, examining his diaries and letters and the minutes of closed meetings. On the basis of this new edvidence, Teveth gives us a fresh understanding of the man who has long been regarded as harsh and uncompromising, showing that Ben-Gurion was in fact the ultimate pragmatist, playing the roles of peacemaker and militant alternately and at times even simultaneously. About the Author: Shabtai Teveth is a Research Fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and at the Weizmann Zionist Research Center at Tel-Aviv University. He is also the author of The Tanks of Tammuz, The Cursed Blessing, and Moshe Dayan: A Biography.

Painful truths about the Zionist rape of Palestine and deliberate planting of anti-Semitism in Iraqi Jewish communities during David Ben-Gurion's political career to persuade Iraqi Jews to immigrate to Israel. The Zionists' goal was to import raw Jewish labor from the Middle East to farm the newly-vacated lands and fill the military ranks with conscripts, to defend the stolen lands.

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Describes how an intelligence caper ordered by Defense Minister Lavon and intelligence chief Benyamin Givly affected Israeli politics

This is the biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father, written by his official biographer, Dr. Michael Bar-Zohar, published so far in fourteen languages throughout the world, recently updated by the author. This is a political, as well as a personal biography. Dr. Bar-Zohar spent nine years with David Ben-Gurion and six more years writing this biography. It served as a basis to a 90 minutes documentary, entitled "B.G.remembers."

An insightful study of the inner life of the Zionist leader responsible for the creation of the state of Israel David Ben-Gurion cast a great shadow during his lifetime, and his legacy continues to be sharply debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder of modern Israel, but this new biography by eminent Israeli historian Anita Shapira strives to get to the core of the complex man who would become the face of the new Jewish nation. Shapira tells the Ben-Gurion story anew, focusing especially on the period after 1948, during the first years of statehood. As a result of her extensive research and singular access to Ben-Gurion’s personal archives, the author provides fascinating and original insights into his personal qualities and those that defined his political leadership. As Shapira writes, “Ben-Gurion liked to argue that history is made by the masses, not individuals. But just as Lenin brought the Bolshevik Revolution into the world and Churchill delivered a fighting Britain, so with Ben-Gurion and the Jewish state. He knew how to create and exploit the circumstances that made its birth possible.” Shapira’s portrait reveals the flesh-and-blood man who more than anyone else realized the Israeli state.

This is the first in-depth account of the later years of David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), Israel’s first Prime Minister and founding father. One of the first to sign Israel’s declaration of independence and a leading figure in Zionism, Ben-Gurion stepped down from office in 1963 and retired from political life in 1970, deeply disappointed about the path on which the state had embarked and the process that brought about the end of his political career. He moved to a kibbutz in the Negev desert, where he lived until his death. Robbed of the public aura that had wrapped him for decades, his revolutionary passion, which was not weakened in his 80s, pushed him to continue seeking social and moral change in Israel, a political solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict, and to conduct a personal and national soul-searching about the development of the State he himself had declared. Based on his personal archives and new interviews with his intimate friends and family, the book reveals how the founding father explored the Israeli establishment he created and from which he later disengaged. It provides a thorough examination of the decisive moments in the annals of Zionism as revealed through the lens of Ben-Gurion’s worldview, which are still relevant to present-day Israel.

Throughout his long and distinguished career as Israel's principal founding father and prime minister, David Ben- Gurion kept diaries in which he recorded in detail everything from world events to the most trifling family matter. Michael Bar-Zohar has drawn extensively on these diaries and on other hitherto unavailable firsthand sources, including Ben-Gurion's secret, personal files and the hundreds of exclusive informal interviews he had with his subject over an eight-year period. This close personal relationship and access to unique source material gave him an unequaled opportunity to write the definitive biography of Ben-Gurion -- an opportunity he has superbly realized. Revealed for the first time in this biography is new information on Ben-Gurion's longtime feud with Chaim Weizmann; on the Suez War, the secret pact he concluded with Turkey, Iran and Ethiopia, the Lavon Affair, and the Sinai Campaign; and on the establishment of a nuclear reactor and other matters of a political nature. Also discussed for the first time are many details of Ben- Gurion's personal life, including his relationship with his wife and children and the story of the other woman in his life, an Englishwoman. This is the only biography to present the human side of the Israeli leader. Michael Bar-Zohar wrote an earlier book on Ben-Gurion, which was published some time ago. Forced to leave out much important material for security reasons and because Ben-Gurion himself requested it, he felt the work was incomplete. With Ben-Gurion's permission he continued his research for a second, far more ambitious study to be published after the deaths of both Ben-Gurion and his wife. The present book came out first in Israel in three volumes, where it has received wide acclaim. Unquestionably, BEN-GURION: A BIOGRAPHY is a definitive work -- a candid, objective, thorough portrait of one of the most important world figures of our time.

Joseph Heller tells the story of the complex and often conflicting political calculations that led directly to the founding of the independent Jewish state of Israel in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. Examining the positions of many competing parties, he explains how and why the charismatic David Ben-Gurion prevailed: by shrewdly manoeuvering between radical extremes on the left and on the right, he says, Ben-Gurion managed to steer a successful middle-of-the-road policy in favour of partition. The book also describes the vital links between internal and external factors in the post-war Zionist movement. It places events in the context of wider Cold War calculations to explain why much of Israel's early military and diplomatic support came - surprisingly - from the Soviet Union, while the United States assumed a neutral position in order not to offend its British ally. In addition, Heller investigates early and ongoing conflicts with neighbouring Arab nations for their influence on Israel's foundation. Through research in a range of archives, diplomatic protocols, diaries and other sources, he provides both Middle East scholars and general readers a balanced account of the historical and contemporary problems and solutions that continue to influence the region's ongoing peace process.

This is the first in-depth account of the later years of David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), Israel’s first Prime Minister and founding father. One of the first to sign Israel’s declaration of independence and a leading figure in Zionism, Ben-Gurion stepped down from office in 1963 and retired from political life in 1970, deeply disappointed about the path on which the state had embarked and the process that brought about the end of his political career. He moved to a kibbutz in the Negev desert, where he lived until his death. Robbed of the public aura that had wrapped him for decades, his revolutionary passion, which was not weakened in his 80s, pushed him to continue seeking social and moral change in Israel, a political solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict, and to conduct a personal and national soul-searching about the development of the State he himself had declared. Based on his personal archives and new interviews with his intimate friends and family, the book reveals how the founding father explored the Israeli establishment he created and from which he later disengaged. It provides a thorough examination of the decisive moments in the annals of Zionism as revealed through the lens of Ben-Gurion’s worldview, which are still relevant to present-day Israel.

Throughout his long and distinguished career as Israel's principal founding father and prime minister, David Ben- Gurion kept diaries in which he recorded in detail everything from world events to the most trifling family matter. Michael Bar-Zohar has drawn extensively on these diaries and on other hitherto unavailable firsthand sources, including Ben-Gurion's secret, personal files and the hundreds of exclusive informal interviews he had with his subject over an eight-year period. This close personal relationship and access to unique source material gave him an unequaled opportunity to write the definitive biography of Ben-Gurion -- an opportunity he has superbly realized. Revealed for the first time in this biography is new information on Ben-Gurion's longtime feud with Chaim Weizmann; on the Suez War, the secret pact he concluded with Turkey, Iran and Ethiopia, the Lavon Affair, and the Sinai Campaign; and on the establishment of a nuclear reactor and other matters of a political nature. Also discussed for the first time are many details of Ben- Gurion's personal life, including his relationship with his wife and children and the story of the other woman in his life, an Englishwoman. This is the only biography to present the human side of the Israeli leader. Michael Bar-Zohar wrote an earlier book on Ben-Gurion, which was published some time ago. Forced to leave out much important material for security reasons and because Ben-Gurion himself requested it, he felt the work was incomplete. With Ben-Gurion's permission he continued his research for a second, far more ambitious study to be published after the deaths of both Ben-Gurion and his wife. The present book came out first in Israel in three volumes, where it has received wide acclaim. Unquestionably, BEN-GURION: A BIOGRAPHY is a definitive work -- a candid, objective, thorough portrait of one of the most important world figures of our time.

Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIsrael’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister. Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the “Old Man,” as he was called even then, was already a mythic figure. Peres, who came of age in the cabinets of Ben-Gurion, is uniquely placed to evoke this figure of stirring contradictions—a prophetic visionary and a canny pragmatist who early grasped the necessity of compromise for national survival. Ben-Gurion supported the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, though it meant surrendering a two-thousand-year-old dream of Jewish settlement in the entire land of Israel. He granted the Orthodox their first exemptions from military service despite his own deep secular commitments, and he reached out to Germany in the aftermath of the Holocaust, knowing that Israel would need as many strong alliances as possible within the European community. A protégé of Ben-Gurion and himself a legendary figure on the international political stage, Shimon Peres brings to his account of Ben-Gurion’s life and towering achievements the profound insight of a statesman who shares Ben-Gurion’s dream of a modern, democratic Jewish nation-state that lives in peace and security alongside its Arab neighbors. In Ben-Gurion, Peres sees a neglected model of leadership that Israel and the world desperately need in the twenty-first century.

David Ben-Gurion, who more than any other man was instrumental in the founding of the state of Israel, was one of the giants of our time. More than a statesman, he was a modern prophet whose influence even now over a decade since his death, continues to stir the Israeli conscience and shape events in the Middle East. In this, the winner of the 1984 National Jewish Book Award of biography, Dan Kurzman has written the definitive account of Israel's first prime minister, a book that chronicles the creation of an entire nation as it provides an unforgettable portrait of the life and times of this great leader. Drawing from extensive research, Kurzman-author of the acclaimed Gensis 1984 and The Bravest Battle- traces Ben-Gurion's ascent from local labor leader to prime minister. With illumination detail, he captures the charismatic personality, the brilliant political strategy and ceaseless energy behind Ben-Gurion's fierce, and ultimately triumphant, vision of building the Jewish state.

Describes how an intelligence caper ordered by Defense Minister Lavon and intelligence chief Benyamin Givly affected Israeli politics

No other Middle Eastern leader has written as much or been written about more extensively than David Ben-Gurion, the founder of the State of Israel and its first prime minister. Yet he remains a deeply controversial figure. Traditional Israeli historians have written about the man and his achievements in the most glowing terms. His Israeli biographers, Michael Bar-Zohar and Shabtai Teveth, have produced multi-volume hagiographies. In recent years, however, revisionist Israeli historians have subjected Ben-Gurion, and especially his policy towards the Arab world, to a critical re-examination. The author's aim in writing this book is not so much to defend or criticize Ben-Gurion as to give a detailed and accurate account of his attitude towards the Arab world in the period between the 1948 War and the Suez War. Shalom recognizes at the outset the distinction between policy and statements, between the operational and declaratory levels of policy. He is concerned not with Ben Gurion's practical policy toward the Arabs but with his views, his attitudes, and his statements. - From a pre-publication review of the book by Avi Shlaim, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Paperback. In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Kedar provides an explication of the making of Israeli democracy in terms of its institutional-legal structures and social-cultural underpinnings. David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy connects the formal structures of democracy to the fundamental principles that they were constructed to serve-human freedom and dignity. In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Here are the stories of three very different men -- a journalist, a scientist, and a labor leader -- who shared the same seemingly impossible dream. They were determined to create a Jewish state in the land God promised to Abraham and his descendants -- land the Jews had been exiled from nearly two thousand years ago. They faced towering obstacles and dramatic setbacks. Yet they prevailed. How? Spanning nearly ninety years and many significant world events, this concise history tells the tale of the creation of the state of Israel through the lives of three men. Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion at times disagreed -- even vehemently -- but each needed the other two in order to accomplish a common goal. A Promise Fulfilled shows how events built on one another -- how the way one crisis was handled influenced the way the next played out. It is essential reading, not just for understanding how the nation of Israel came to be, but for insight into the controversy and crises that surround this country even today.

This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist "renaissance," of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now - after the dust surrounding Israel's founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurion's downfall - this book presents a fresh look at this statesman-intellectual and his success and tragic failures during a unique period of time that he and his peers described as the "Jewish renaissance." The resulting reappraisal offers a new analysis of Ben-Gurion's actual role as a major player in Israeli, Middle Eastern, and global politics.

" Gal... has written an impressive account of an important period in the history of political Zionism.... detailed, scholarly... " —Library Journal"... important... " —Choice"A provocative post-Zionist critique of the fundamental concepts of Jewish peoplehood, Zionism, and Israeli nationalism." —Choice"The book is readable, structured and systematic, and for all its wideness of scope it maintains continuity and connections betrween the different topics discussed." —The Jerusalem Post"This is a comprehensive and well documented study of the interaction between Ben-Gurion and other leaders between 1938 and 1942." —AJL Newsletter"While this is an intensively detailed book, Gal always sustains his story and moves it ahead. He has written a fine study of a critical phase of Zionist and American Jewish history, as well as a revealing study of David Ben-Gurion." —Lloyd P. Gartner, Tel-Aviv University, Studies in Contemporary JewryIsrael's military restraint, at America's request, during the recent Persian Gulf War is not so surprising when viewed in light of the Zionist-American bonds forged by David Ben-Gurion in 1948. Against the background of Kristallnacht and Britain's retreat from the Jewish mandate for Palestine, Ben-Gurion shaped a new Zionist foreign policy based on the assumed rise of the United States as a world power that would determine the future of the Middle East.