"These days we are witnessing a lot of noise, a lot of shouting, screaming. And we are trying to understand what the essence of the controversy is today, what the controversy is about - is it about content, about essence, about principles?" He said today (Wednesday). Of the late David Ben-Gurion at the Sde Boker seminary.
"If in the past the controversy was about essence - about withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, about disengagement, about going to the first Lebanon war, then today the controversy is for controversy. After all, there is no withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, no war, no disengagement - then what is all the drama about? All the noise?
"There is a government formed in the name of the same unifying principle, and the attacks on it are on the very idea of sitting together, on the very idea that the state is bigger than the tribe, and this is a worrying development. We are determined to maintain the same statehood, a united state. Thanks to him we came together, thanks to him we won, thanks to him we are here. "
Prime Minister Bennett, President Herzog and his wife Michal, along with Knesset Speaker Levy and Defense Minister Ganz at the Ben Gurion Memorial Ceremony,
David Ben-Gurion was born on October 16, 1886 as David Joseph Green in the town of Plonsk in Poland (then in the Russian Empire).
In 1906, at the age of 20, he immigrated to Eretz Israel as part of the second aliyah - from there he immigrated and grew up in Jewish society in Eretz Israel.
With the establishment of the State of Israel, he was appointed the first prime minister and the first defense minister.
Beyond that, he served as an MK between the first and seventh incomes - when he ended his parliamentary activity on May 27, 1970. He died on December 1, 1973, at the age of 87 - about two months after the Yom Kippur War. His grave and the grave of his wife, Paula, are in the garden Leumi Ben Gurion Tomb.