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David Ben-Gurion

دافيد بن غوريون דוד בן-גוריון
Head of government Inactive Verified

First prime minister of Israel (1948-1954, 1955-1963), declared independence on May 14 1948, co-founder of Mapai and the modern Israeli state.

Country
Israel
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of government
Status
Historical figure

Position

2 source documents on file for David Ben-Gurion (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to David Ben-Gurion that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • We hereby proclaim the establishment of the Jewish state in the Land of Israel — to be known as the State of Israel.
    אנו מכריזים בזאת על הקמת מדינה יהודית בארץ ישראל, היא מדינת ישראל.
  • We shall fight the war as if there were no White Paper, and fight the White Paper as if there were no war.
    1939 A 1939 directive to the Yishuv on dual strategy during the Second World War and against Britain's restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine. en.wikiquote.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). David Ben-Gurion [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ben-gurion
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "David Ben-Gurion." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ben-gurion.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-ben-gurion,
  title     = {{David Ben-Gurion}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ben-gurion},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.