In the mid-1940s, Ho Chi Minh suggested to David Ben-Gurion that the future Israeli prime minister establish a Jewish government in exile in North Vietnam. To mark more than 20 years of diplomatic ...

THE Quaid-i-Azam was an ardent supporter of a Palestinian state. When Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, sent a telegram in 1947 to Jinnah, requesting him to establish diplomatic ...

On this day in 1949, the newly established State of Israel held its first elections, in which David Ben-Gurion's political party, Mapai, won, making Ben-Gurion the first-ever Israeli prime minister.

Israeli sailors marched and the Harvard Band played last night at a mass meeting in the Boston Garden honoring David Ben-Gurion. Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion wept openly before a crowd of ...