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At a "convention" of the tiny membership in Ramle in Oc- tober 1906, Ben-Gurion star- tied some of the more doc- trinaire young friends by in- sisting that the aims of political Zionism must take precedence over any Social- ist idealism. This presaged his insistence in later years upon what he called "ham- lakhiut"— that national in- terests must precede all par- tisan or even ideological ones. Nevertheless, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, he wrote to Nahman Syrkin, the father of Social- ist Zionism, that Zionists should seek to join the Third International, and expressed belief that the Russian revo- lution was the harbinger of Jewish liberation in the So- viet Union for those Jews who wanted to remain there. Poverty and malaria at Petah Tikva caused Ben- Gurion to leaVe in 1907 and move to Sejara in the Gali- lee where the first attempt was made to establish a Jewish agricultural collective, "Hahoresh," and where he founded "hashomer," the Jewish self-defense organi- zation which was to be the forerunner of the Hagana and Zahal. After two young settlers were killed by Arab marau- ders, Ben Gurion later wrote: "I understood that sooner or later there would be a mili- tary confrontation with the Arabs. I realized that this conflict was inevitable . . . we would have to be pre- pared." Three years later, he went to Jerusalem to help, with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Rachel Yanait and Yaacov Zeru- bavel, edit Poalei Zion's new newspaper, "Ahdut," and in this he adopted the name Ben- Gurion, the name of a Jewish hero in the Roman wars nearly 2,000 years before. The paper supported the young Turk movement which had revolted in 1908 against Turkish oppression. After an interval in which he studied law in Istanbul, he returned to Palestine and in 1915 the Turkish adminis- tration banished him and Ben-Zvi, later Israel's sec- ond president, and deprived him of his Turkish citizenship for "trying to tear Palestine out of the Turkish home- land." By 1921 he was definitely a national figure: secretary general of Histadrut until 1935 and in that year was elected chairman of the Jerusalem executive of the Jewish Agency. In 1927, the Ahdut Haavoda Party of which he had been a co- founder, joined with Hapoel Hatzair to form Mapai, the party which he led until he finally resigned Israel's pre- miership in 1963. During the entire period he was also one of the chief builders of Hagana, the Jew- ish underground defense force. He escaped arrest with the other Jewish leaders by the British in July 1946 only because he was out of the country. He never relin- quished his nost as minister of defense while he was prime minister, and for a NORTH PARK PLAZA BLDG. time in 1955, when he came back from his first period of retirement at Sde Boker, he was only minister of defense under Moshe Sharett as prime minister. Although a comparative latecomer to the idea that a full-fledged Jewish state must be established and not some kind of commonwealth or trusteeship, he put the whole weight of his personality be- hind it once the historic meeting in 1942 at the Bilt- more Hotel in New York had so decided. It was he who proclaimed the state in May 1948 and he then proceeded system- atically to clear it of all in- ternal rival establishments— first the Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Group military or- ganizations and then the Palmah itself, spearhead of the Hagana whose leaders wanted it to become an army within the army. Only re- cently did he make peace with Yigal Allon, then corn- mander of the Palmah and at present Israel's deputy prime minister. Ben-Gurion was a prolific writer. He was the author of "Self-Government of Vil- lages" (1914); "The Labor Movement and Revisionism" (1933); "From Class to Na- tion" (1933); "The Struggle" (5 volumes from 1947 to 50); "Rebirth and Destiny of Israel" (1954); "The Sinai Campaign" (1959); and "Years of Challenge" (1963). He was also a passionate reader, and among the thou- sands of books he read in his lifetime were works by Cer- vantes, Una Muno and Garcia Lorca in Spanish, and the writings of Plato in ancient Greek. (Related Stories on. Page 14) 17 W. Nine Mile Rd. 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