David Ben-Gurion

(October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973; Hebrew: ?????? ???? ???????????) was the first Prime Minister of Israel.

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He was born as David Gruen (pronounced "Green") in P?o?sk, Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire. Shocked by the pogroms and rampant anti-Semitism that plagued Jewish life in Eastern Europe, he became an ardent Zionist and socialist and moved to Palestine in 1906.

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He first worked as a journalist and adopted his Hebrew name Ben-Gurion as he began his political career. He was expelled from Palestine, then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, in 1915 due to his political activities.

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