THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 29, 1970-3
David Ben-Gurion Quits His Knesset Seat: 'No Time for Parliamentary Work'
JERUSALEM (JTA) — David
Radish, lettuce, onion sets, peas,
Ben-Gurion, the man who pro-
spinach and cabbage seed are us-
ually resistant to freezing tempera- claimed Israel's independence in
tures, note Michigan State Univer- 1948 and served twice as his
nation's prime minister, resigned
sity horticulturists.
from the Knesset Monday, there-
by removing himself, perhaps
finally, from public life.
Ben-Gurion, who always affected
the informality of a bare head and
open collar, submitted his resigna-
tion in an equally informal man-
ner. He wrote it on a sheet of
blank paper which he sent with a
ICriesset usher from his seat in the
Knesset hall to the speaker's
podium. The 83-year-old statesman
explained briefly that he found it
"impossible to spare any of my
time for parlimentary work."
Entreaties by his colleagues to
defer his resignation for several
weeks in order to address the cen-
tenary of the Mikve Israel Agri-
cultural School, were to no avail.
Some political observers recalled
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that Ben-Gurion had resigned once
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Ben-Gurion, who was born in
Russia and came to Palestine as
a youth when the country was
under Turkish rule, served as a
leader from 1935 to 1963, first as
chairman of the Jewish Agency
and later as Israel's first prime
minister. He issued Israel's dec-
laration of independence on May
14, 1948, against the opposition
of many of his colleagues and at
a time when the country was
threatened with imminent invasion
by the armies of five Arab coun-
tries. Regarded as one of the
greatest personalities produced by
the Jewish people in this century
and revered by most Israelis for
his achievements, Ben-Gurion's
political influence waned sharply
after his resignation from the
premiership, for the second time,
in 1963. He engaged in a vendetta
with his hand-picked successor,
former Premier Levi Eshkol. In
the past year he has been a bitter
political opponent of Premier
Golda Meir and has met with a
great deal of public disapproval
because of his opposition to coali-
tion government policies.
Ben-Gurion's efforts to form new
political factions met with only
modest success after he left office.
In 1965 he quit Mapai, the Israel
labor party he helped found, and
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the Rafi faction made up mainly
of Mapai dissidents. The party
remained small and following the
June, 1967, war it decided to join
a coalition with Mapai and Achdut
Avodah to form the present Israel
Labor Party. Ben-Gurion refused
to go along with the merger and
founded a second new party, the
State List, which had even less
sucess at the polls than Rafi. Some
Knesset observers said that Ben-
Gurion's resignation was not due
to "lack of time" but to the de-
cline of his political influence.
They noted that the former pre-
mier was in good health for a man
of his years and still full of
energy.
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