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Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) - (born1886–1973)
The modern State of Israel was named "Israel" rather than "Judea" for reasons that combine ancient usage, evolving self-identity, and deliberate political choice during the state's founding: "Judea" i...
President Harry S. Truman recognized the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 because a convergence of moral conviction about Jewish suffering after the Holocaust, domestic political pressures and advisers...
Scholars and commentators disagree about whether David Ben‑Gurion wrote or intended the sentence “We must expel Arabs and take their place.” Some editions and historians quote that line from his Octob...
Zionism emerged in the late 19th century as a modern Jewish nationalist movement that sought a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine; key institutional moments were Theodor Herzl’s 1896 pamphlet Der J...
The phrase Eretz Yisrael Ha‑Shlema ("the Whole/Greater Land of Israel") has been explicitly used by Revisionist Zionists and their political descendants — notably Menachem Begin’s Herut and today’s Li...
The idea known in English as “Greater Israel” rests on two concentric origins: ancient biblical descriptions of Eretz Yisrael and a modern political reworking by Zionist thinkers and activists; it was...
The modern State of Israel was declared on 14 May 1948 at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, followed immediately by the 1948 Arab–Israeli War that left Israel in control of most mandate te...
Adolf Eichmann was located in Argentina and seized by Israeli agents in May 1960; most accounts put the abduction on May 11 and his removal to Israel on May 20–23, 1960 . Documentation cited in contem...