David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) isracast.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from isracast.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In his last work, Daniel Doron lays the blame for Israel’s social and economic issues on the leaders and founders of socialist Zionism, pointing to monopolies, malignant bureaucracy, institutionalized political nepotism and corruption
How the Israeli left finally got to see the true face of Joseph Stalin thejc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thejc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Some 50 years ago, Druze poet Samih al-Qasim was indicted for not complying with state censorship rules before publishing a book of poems. Not all members of the Hebrew Writers Association agreed to act on his behalf. Finally, with Prime Minister Golda Meir's intervention, his trial was canceled
Illustrative: Jewish families flee Arab rioting in Jerusalem s Old City in August 1929. (Public domain)
Palestinian Arabs gather at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, in an anti-Zionist demonstration on March 8, 1920, prior to the Nabi Musa holiday on which violent rioting took place. (Public domain)
Illustrative: Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill on a visit to the British Mandate of Palestine in March 1921, nearly three decades before it became the Jewish state. (Churchill Museum)
Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill with Sir Herbert Samuel during a visit to Jerusalem in March 1921. (Public domain)
Jewish refugees, arriving in Haifa, Palestine on April 14, 1920, aboard the Theodore Herzl support on their shoulders the bodies, in white shrouds, two of their compatriots, whom refugees charge where slain when the Theodore Herzl was boarded by British personnel after unsuccessfully attempting to run the British blockade. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons)