David Ben-Gurion
AKA
David Gruen
Born:
16-Oct
-
1886
Birthplace:
Plonsk, Poland
Died:
1-Dec
-
1973
Location of death:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Cause of death:
unspecified
Remains:
Buried, Kibbutz Sde-Boker Cemetery, Kibbutz Sde-Boker, Israel
Gender:
Male
Religion:
Jewish
Race or Ethnicity:
White
Sexual orientation:
Straight
Occupation:
Head of State
Nationality:
Israel
Executive summary:
First Prime Minister of Israel
Military service:
British Army (40th Royal Fusiliers)
Father:
Avigdor Gruen (lawyer)
Mother:
Sheindel
Wife:
Pauline Munweis (m. 1917, d. 1968, three children)
Daughter:
Geula
Daughter:
Renana
Son:
Amos
University:
Warsaw University
Prime Minister of Israel
1955-63
Prime Minister of Israel
1948-53
Sedition
Warsaw, Poland (1905), charge dropped
Traveled to the USSR
1923
Assassination Attempt
Knesset (29-Oct-1957), grenade attack
Shrapnel Injury
hand and leg (29-Oct-1957)
Proxy Baptism: Mormon
per 2-May-2001
Deseret News
article
Author of books:
Israel: A Personal History
(
1970
, nonfiction)
The Jews in Their Land
(
1974
, nonfiction, posthumhous)
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