Brushing aside negative portrayals of the ancient rebels, the Zionists made an ideological connection to them because they had bequeathed an important legacy.
MIDDLE ISRAEL: There was a time when leaders thought of things larger than themselves.
Teams of retired technicians came back for a special project: restoring a long-retired air conditioning unit in the former home of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.
In law, morality is necessary for mishpat tzedek (justice) to be done and if justice is done and seen, peace will result.
To those who believed in waiting for the Messiah, they said we can return to Israel without a Messiah.
The once Zionist renegade is now part of the Israeli mainstream - but was he more terrorist or freedom fighter?
David Ben-Gurion won the elections and became Israel's first prime minister and Chaim Weizmann became Israel's first president.
The "Historical Figures" app allows you to have conversations with any of 20,000 prominent people from history (including some key Israeli figures).
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Israel would become a country in which the citizens literally have no rights unless the government allows it.
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