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(then leader of the opposition
in the Knesset) asked her
where she was going. "To
Ben-Gurion's," she replied.
"You promised me that after
the election I would be sleep-
ing with the prime minis-
ter." '
"Ben-Gurion unsmilingly
pondered the joke. 'I don't be-
lieve Begin made such a
promise,' he said. 'I don't like
him, but he is a gentleman.' "
Ben-Gurion was not a per-
sonable man and he did not
engage in small talk.
Everyone, including his wife
Paula, called him Ben-
Gurion. He was never called
David. In private he was
called Hazaken, the Old Man.
He was married to his un-
sophisticated and often-
neglected wife for 48 years.
Detroiters Remember
David Ben-Gurion
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image. His legacy to them is
a deep and intimate love of
the land, a reliance on the
Torah as the record and
blueprint of Jewish nation-
hood and the Books of the
Prophets as the model of the
just society. He also left them
a blunt and direct disposition,
a certain emotional shallow-
ness and a poor sense of
humor.
Dan Kurzman, in his
Ben-Gurion biography Pro-
phet of Fire, relates an at-
tempt by B-G's son-in-law to
illustrate to the prime minis-
ter that he really had no
sense of humor:
" The day after the last
election, when you were re-
turned to the prime minister-
ship,' said Emanuel, `Begin's
wife packed a bag, and Begin
Staff Writer
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he was a short
little fellow,
very thin, very
outspoken. According to him
everybody should join the
Jewish Legion and go to
Palestine," recalls Chana
Michlin of her first encounter
with Ben-Gurion.
World War I was_ being
waged and Zionist activity
centered on recruiting young
Jews to join the Jewish
Legion, attached to the
British Army in Palestine.
"Ben-Gurion was one of
those who came to Detroit to
recruit," she says. Fervently
involved in the Zionist effort,
Michlin and her comrades
would "stand on soap boxes"
on Hastings Street and re-
cruit local Jews.
After the war, Ben-
GurioR's Zionist work went
on. At that time, much of
diaspora. Jewry was anti-
Zionist and few thought it
possible to resurrect the
Jewish Commonwealth in the
Land of Israel.
"I remember sitting on the
platform of the then-
headquarters of the United
Hebrew Schools on Philadel-
phia and Byron," Philip
Slomovitz, editor emeritus of
The Jewish News says of a
local meeting which Ben-
Gurion attended. "It was
1920. There were not more
than 40 participants. It was
lucky to get even so small a
group together for a meeting.
No one anticipated B-G's
eventual rise to world leader-
ship."
Leah and Isadore Shrodeck
were two members of a
Zionist youth group called
Hechalutz, the Pioneer. Be-
fore their aliyah in the early
'30s, Ben-Gurion came to De-
troit to address the .group of
youngsters.
"The Labor Zionist head-
quarters was on 12th Street,
above a store," Leah explains.
"We had a little room there,
a very little room with a
skylight. (Ben-Gurion) sat on
a chair, and we sat around
him on the floor. We were
just enamoured of him."
"I remember this deter-
mined individual, speaking in
a soft tone, but with such
strength in his voice," Isadore
says of that meeting. "He was
telling of his reminiscences,
just painting the picture of
what was going on in Pales-
tine at the time. He made it
very real.
"I don't think anyone in
that room thought we'd see
an Israel. But there was such
a strength in his voice.
`Come, we need you,' (he
said). It was magnetic."
"He was not so much con-
cerned with what we could
bring to Israel in terms of
money," Leah adds. He was
interested "in youth coming
to Israel."
When Ben-Gurion was laid
up with the flu in Detroit,
Leah's brother, the late Berl
Hershen, "sat up with him all
night, giving him medicine
and changing the compresses
on his forehead," Leah re-
calls.
Emma Schaver remembers
Ben-Gurion as a "very seri-
ous person" who "did not
engage in small talk."
The State of Israel was de-
clared in 1948, and Ben-