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David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel and widely hailed as the State’s main founder.

David Yosef Gruen was born in Plonsk, Poland, on October 16, 1886, and educated in a Hebrew school established by his father, an ardent Zionist.

By his mid-teens, Ben-Gurion led a Zionist youth group, “Ezra,” whose members spoke only Hebrew among themselves.

At the age of 18 he became a teacher in a Warsaw Jewish school and joined the Socialist-Zionist group “Poalei Zion” (Workers of Zion).

Ben-Gurion arrived in the Land of Israel at Jaffa port on September 7, 1906.

In his first postcard home after arriving, he wrote, “My dear ones, Hurrah.

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Today at the ninth hour I alighted on the shore of Jaffa…We’re going to Petah Tikvah. I’ll write in more detail from there. I wasn’t ill on the journey even once! I’m feeling well, full of courage, and full of faith.”

Ben-Gurion believed realizing the Zionist dream took priority over the Marxist ideology