At midnight, on May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion raised the flag of the new State of Israel as its first prime minister. By ...

Another sign that Syria is moving in positive directions occurred during the Israel-Iran war. As Arab governments lambasted Israel’s air campaign, Syria refrained from issuing a single formal ...

David Ben-Gurion Independence Day 2025: A 'conversation' with great figures of Israeli, Zionist history - opinion. My questions, their words – genuine quotes spanning 130 years of vision and ...

While the Haganah itself operated before the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the origins of the IDF can be traced back more ...

News about David Ben-Gurion. Commentary and archival information about David Ben-Gurion from The New York Times.

David Ben-Gurion, flanked by the members of his provisional government, reads the Declaration of Independence in the Tel Aviv Museum Hall on May 14, 1948.

David Ben-Gurion takes us back to the future Almost 14 months after the harrowing October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks, the American and global Jewish communities are still searching, even ...

A an image of the handwritten diary of David Ben-Gurion from the evening of May 14, 1948, is released ahead of Israel’s Independence Day. The original of the diary has not yet been located, the ...

I stood at the northernmost tip of Israel, just behind the border with Lebanon. A pale-grey concrete wall divided the two countries. Just a few yards away, on the other side, a road snaked into the ...

David Ben-Gurion, the father of the State of Israel, was the first prime minister. He was born in Poland in 1886 and joined the socialist-Zionist group Poalei Zion ...