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• Hebrew, and with it knowledge of its greatest written works, Torah and Talmud, are the matrix in which Jewishness is embedded.

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• The Jews have little sense of a Hell waiting under their feet. Their hell is more a personal dissatisfaction born of mediocrity…It’s origins lie in an innate Judaic awareness of Amsagolah and its demands upon the conscience.

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• In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

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• Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

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• If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert.

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• Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen… Their faith is their passport.

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• Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us – becoming stronger and stronger – and we will complete the message.

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• The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations – Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others – were natives of Europe and America.

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• There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don’t say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

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• Thought is a strenuous art – few practice it, and then only at rare times.

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• Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

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• Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

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• Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.

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David Ben-Gurion (13)

Birth:	16th October, 1886
Death:	1st December, 1973
Nationality:	Israeli
Profession:	Politician

About

David Ben-Gurion was born in Plonsk, Poland. He was the primary founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel. As Prime Minister, he helped build the state institutions, presiding over various national projects aimed at the development of the country. Under his leadership, Israel responded aggressively to Arab guerrilla attacks, and in 1956, invaded Egypt along with British and French forces after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal during what became known as the Suez Crisis. Posthumously, Ben-Gurion was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.

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