Ben-Gurion

[ben-goor-ee-uhn, ben-goo-ryawn]

noun

1. David, 1886–1973, Israeli statesman, born in Poland: prime minister of Israel 1948–53, 1955–63.

Ben-Gurion

/ bɛnˈɡʊərɪən /

noun

1. David , original name David Gruen . 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)

Example Sentences

He has his flaws and has made his share of costly mistakes, but the same can be said of ancient leaders like Samson and David as well as modern heroes like David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan.

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But despite the moment of extraordinary tension, Truman immediately recognised the State of Israel when it was declared two days later by David Ben-Gurion, the country's first prime minister.

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In 2019, for example, Nir Grinberg, a computational social scientist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and colleagues showed that in a sample of more than 16,000 Twitter users taken around the 2016 U.S. presidential election, 80% of tweeted news from untrustworthy websites came from just 16 users.

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David Ben-Gurion, Israel's revered founding father and first prime minister, described the partition plan as "the most wonderful lever for the gradual conquest of all of Palestine."

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This was convenient for Zionist leaders, who worried that the roughly equal populations of Jews and Arabs within their earmarked territory did not provide, in the words of Ben-Gurion, "a stable basis for a Jewish state."

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