Following Israel's Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's first formal order was to announce the establishment of an official army for the new nation: the Israel ...

Two Israeli generals who had played prominent roles in Israel’s War of Liberation retorted sharply today to a statement by former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who had implied that a third general ...

A history of modern Israeli politics tells the story of leaders who won’t exit the stage and parties that split and split ...

The war in Israel is steeped in history. So you need to start at the beginning. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.

On May 14, 1948, in the Tel Aviv Museum, David Ben-Gurion read from the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. As historian Simon Sebag Montefiore recounts in his masterful book ...

Gurion’s 1941 British visa application lists him as Palestinian citizen— A complex legacy explored - The Maravi Post ...

Benny Morris, the Israeli “new historian,” probably doesn’t know it, but it was his book on “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem” (1987) that led me more than a decade ago to temporarily ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 40. Following Israel's Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's first formal order was to ...