Armed with a camera and tape recorder, he spent decades preserving the ancient traditions of nomadic Middle Eastern tribes. By Isabel Kershner The union, which predates Israel’s founding, led a strike ...

Americans in search of hope and optimism amid Israel’s multifront war as well as surging antisemitism on the home front can find it on Dec. 8 through “Ben-Gurion Day in the USA,” Americans for ...

David Ben-Gurion and Tom Segev are consequential figures in the history of Israel, one of them for making it and the other for writing about it. That’s why Segev’s new biography of Ben-Gurion, “A ...

Six hours of interviews with David Ben-Gurion were rediscovered three years ago and used for the documentary “Ben-Gurion, Epilogue.” Photo courtesy of David Marks. One year after Israel’s lightning ...

David Ben-Gurion left the United States today after completing a strenuous 19-day cross-country visit at the invitation of the United Jewish Appeal, in which he sought aid for absorbing Israel’s ...

Another book on David Ben-Gurion? Many are the studies of the iconic Zionist leader — Shabtai Teveth’s massive and comprehensive political biography, “The Burning Ground,” is an analysis from the ...

Peres, president and former prime minister of Israel, provides an intriguing and intimate political biography of David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), Israel’s first prime minister and his erstwhile mentor.

Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had a twin brother who died soon after birth, according to a document recently found in Plonsk, Poland, his native town. The document — a birth ...

A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion. By Tom Segev. Translated by Haim Watzman.Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 816 pages; $40. Head of Zeus; £30. HE CUT AN unprepossessing figure: short, with ...

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, Jim Gianopulos, Kevin Tsujihara, Jerry Bruckheimer, Brian Grazer, Pat Riley and Gary Barber were among the other notable figures in attendance. By Scott Feinberg ...

It is only recently that David Ben-Gurion ceased to be, for the sake of the official record books, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. That honor now belongs to Benjamin Netanyahu, even as his ...

Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. By Elisabeth ...