Ben-Gurion

[ ben-goor-ee-uhn; Sephardic Hebrew ben-goo-ryawn ]

noun

1. David, 1886–1973, Israeli statesman, born in Poland: prime minister of Israel 1948–53, 1955–63.

Ben-Gurion

/ bɛnˈɡʊərɪən /

noun

1. Ben-GurionDavid18861973MIsraeliPolishPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister David , original name David Gruen . 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)

Example Sentences

In 2019, for example, Nir Grinberg, a computational social scientist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and colleagues showed that in a sample of more than 16,000 Twitter users taken around the 2016 U.S. presidential election, 80% of tweeted news from untrustworthy websites came from just 16 users.

From Science Magazine

David Ben-Gurion, Israel's revered founding father and first prime minister, described the partition plan as "the most wonderful lever for the gradual conquest of all of Palestine."

From Salon

This was convenient for Zionist leaders, who worried that the roughly equal populations of Jews and Arabs within their earmarked territory did not provide, in the words of Ben-Gurion, "a stable basis for a Jewish state."

From Salon

On May 14, Ben-Gurion formally declared the establishment of the state of Israel.

From Salon

So vile was the Nakba that David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding leader, bemoaned, just two months into Israel’s existence: “It turned out that most of the Jews are thieves.”

From Slate