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 ...

Ben-Gurion returned as prime minister in November 1955 and served until June 1963. After retiring from politics in 1970, he once again entered the Negev Desert. “A prime minister can only be one ...

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 ...

Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illluminating, edifying and sometimes ...

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 ...

In “Ben-Gurion on Judicial Reform” (Politics & Ideas, Aug. 2), William Galston quotes Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s 1949 statement that it was impossible to “delegate authority to the ...

David Ben-Gurion, 79, has been of two minds about Levi Eshkol, 70. First, he named him heir to Israel and the Mapai Party. Then, two years later, he proclaimed Eshkol “unfit to govern,” and announced ...

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Wikimedia Commons/David Saranga, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs via JNS.org) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has launched a $1 billion fundraising campaign ...

For the first time ever, Ben-Gurion Day, an annual holiday in Israel, will be celebrated in the United States on November 30, 2022. Led by Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU), the inaugural ...

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 ...