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David Ben-Gurion

1886 - 1973

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David Ben-Gurion ( ben GOOR-ee-ən; Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן־גּוּרִיּוֹן [daˈvid ben ɡuʁˈjon] ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was the de facto leader of the Jewish community in Palestine, and largely led the movement for an independent Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine. Born in Płońsk, then part of Congress Poland, to Polish Jewish parents, he immigrated to the Palestine region of the Ottoman Empire in 1906. Adopting the name of Ben-Gurion in 1909, he rose to become the preeminent leader of the Jewish community in British-ruled Mandatory Palestine from 1935 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, which he led until 1963 with a short break in 1954–55. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Ben-Gurion is the 292nd most popular politician (down from 138th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Poland (down from 8th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Politician.

David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel and is most famous for his role in the creation of the state of Israel.

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Among politicians, David Ben-Gurion ranks 292 out of 19,576. Before him are Henry II of France, Ferdinand I of Austria, Babur, António de Oliveira Salazar, Antoninus Pius, and Tomyris. After him are A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Louis the Pious, Margaret I of Denmark, Olaf II of Norway, Ursula von der Leyen, and Wangari Maathai.

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Among people born in 1886, David Ben-Gurion ranks 2. Before him is Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. After him are Alfonso XIII of Spain, Diego Rivera, Robert Schuman, Robert Robinson, Manne Siegbahn, Oskar Kokoschka, Béla Kun, Jean Arp, Sergey Kirov, and Mir Osman Ali Khan. Among people deceased in 1973, David Ben-Gurion ranks 5. Before him are Pablo Picasso, J. R. R. Tolkien, Bruce Lee, and Pablo Neruda. After him are Salvador Allende, Erich von Manstein, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Lyndon B. Johnson, Pearl S. Buck, Fulgencio Batista, and W. H. Auden.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, David Ben-Gurion ranks 13 out of 1,694. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Paul von Hindenburg (1847). After him are Günter Grass (1927), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Wisława Szymborska (1923), and Fritz Haber (1868).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, David Ben-Gurion ranks 3. Before him are Lech Wałęsa (1943), and Paul von Hindenburg (1847). After him are Lech Kaczyński (1949), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Casimir III the Great (1310), Donald Tusk (1957), Sigismund I the Old (1467), and Władysław III of Poland (1424).

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