David Ben-Gurion

• דוד בן-גוריון
• David Yosef Grun (birth name)

Ben Gurion family in their Tel Aviv home. From left: David & Paula with youngest daughter Renana on BG\\\\\\\'s lap, daughter Geula, father Avigdor Green and son Amos (Photo in public domain)

David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) -- if you don't know who he was, then ...

He lived in Salonika from 7 November 1911 to 14 August 1912, studying Turkish in preparation for studying law in Constantinoople.

He spent several months at the beginning of his stay in the US during WW1 trying to recruit Jewish volunteers to assist the Ottoman empire in defendingPalestine.

Here is an interesting piece about his children, Amos, Geula and Renana.

Ben-Gurion is known to have had at least three mistresses during his marriage: the first was Rega Klapholz, a Viennese Jew, the second was Doris May, a British gentile, and the third was an American woman, Miriam Cohen

See this Wikipedia (English) article

• David Ben-Gurion arrives in Palestine ( Sep 1906)
• Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and David Ben-Gurion propose to the Turkish Commander-in-Chief the setting up of a Jewish volunteer legion ( Nov 1914)
• US navy evacuates Jews from Palestine to Egypt ( Mar 1915)
• Meeting of Poalei Zion party workers and central figures of Hashomer at Amdursky Hotel in Jerusalem (2 Mar 1915)
• Ben-Gurion's sojourn in the United States after his deportation from Palestine during WW1 ( May 1915)
• So-called Eretz-Yisrael Conference ( Dec 1918)
• Ben Gurion and Jabotinsky negotiate in London (10 Oct 1934)
• Weizmann's 1930 proposal to transfer the Palestinians to Transjordan is discussed at a meeting of the Political Commitee of Mapai (30 Mar 1936)
• Ben-Gurion approaches St John Philby in an attempt to open negotiations with Ibn Saud (18 May 1937)
• Ben-Gurion gives speech accusing British officials of slandering the Jews in trial of Reichlin and Sirkin (4 Oct 1943)
• Ben-Gurion visits Landsberg DP camp ( Oct 1945)
• Zionist leadership decides to ethnically cleanse as much of Palestine as it can conquer (10 Mar 1948)
• Generals' Revolt in Israel (26 Apr 1948)
• Drafting of Israeli Declaration of Independence (12 May 1948)
• Weitz gives Ben-Gurion his memo recommending retroactive transfer (5 Jun 1948)
• Haganah sink the Irgun ship "Altalena" (21 Jun 1948)
• Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister and then agrees to continue when Galili agrees to be sacrificed (6 Jul 1948)
• Jerusalem Declared Israel-Occupied City (2 Aug 1948)
• Anglo-Palestine Bank is appointed the financial agent of the state of Israel (16 Aug 1948)
• Israeli cabinet discuss Ben-Gurion's proposal that Israeli army capture southern part of West Bank and expel all Arabs from Galilee (26 Sep 1948)
• Ben-Gurion suggests, and the JNF representative agrees, that the JNF should buy 1 million dunams of refugees land from the state (21 Dec 1948)
• Truman issues ultimatum, that Israel withdraw from Sinai (31 Dec 1948)
• Ben-Gurion, as Israeli minister of defence, announces abolition of military government in Jerusalem, underlining Israeli intention to treat the part of the city under its control as part of its territory (2 Feb 1949)
• Ethnic cleansing of the "Faluja Pocket" (26 Feb 1949)
• Ben-Gurion triggers a storm by demanding that US Jews send their children to Israel for permanent settlement (1 Sep 1949)
• Jewish peace activist tries to assassinate Israeli prime minister (12 Sep 1949)
• Herut revolt against acceptance of reparations from Germany (7 Jan 1952)
• D F Malan becomes first foreign head of government to visit Israel while in office ( Sep 1953)
• Massacre in Qibya (14 Oct 1953)
• Ben-Gurion sets up task force to Judaize the Bedouin ( 1956)
• Conference of Sevres (21 Oct 1956)
• Signing of the Protocol of Sטvres (24 Oct 1956)
• Israeli border police massacre Palestinian citizens of Israel at Kafr Qassem (29 Oct 1956)
• Ben-Gurion's Third Kingdom of Israel speech in the Knesset (8 Nov 1956)
• "Who is a Jew?" crisis in Israel ( Mar 1958)
• Ben-Gurion writes to over forty leading Jewish experts, asking for advice on who is a Jew (27 Oct 1958)
• Ben-Gurion and JFK argue about Israeli nuclear plant at Dimona (30 May 1961)
• David Ben-Gurion visits Burma ( Dec 1961)
• White House counsel tells Ben Gurion and Meir in Tel Aviv that President Kennedy has decided to end embargo on arms sales to Israel (10 Aug 1962)
• Israeli prime minister orchestrates last extension of military rule in Knesset ( Feb 1963)
• David Ben-Gurion demands that entire Old City Wall of Jerusalem be razed (15 Jun 1967)