8 July 2025 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Solar energy and Environmental Physics building at Jacob Blaustein Institutes © David Shankbone/cc-by-3.0
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (
Hebrew : Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev) is a
public research university in
Beersheba , Israel. Named after Israeli
national founder David Ben-Gurion , the university was founded in 1969 and currently has five campuses; three in Beersheba, one in
Sede Boqer and one in
Eilat .
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21 September 2022 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: Portrait
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David Ben-Gurion, 1968 © Fritz Cohen – National Photo Collection of Israel
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David Ben-Gurion was the primary
national founder of the
State of Israel and the
first Prime Minister of Israel . Adopting the name of Ben-Gurion in 1909, he rose to become the preeminent leader of the Jewish community in British-ruled
Mandatory Palestine from 1935 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, which he led until 1963 with a short break in 1954–55.
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8 August 2022 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Museums, Exhibitions , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Ben-Gurion House is a
historic house museum in
Tel Aviv , which served as the family home of
pre-State Zionist leader and then first
Defense and
Prime Minister of
Israel ,
David Ben-Gurion , between 1931 and 1953. Until his death in 1973 it continued serving as an additional residence, along with two others, one private – “
Ben-Gurion’s hut ” at
Kibbutz Sde Boker in the
Negev (known as his desert home), and the official residence as
Prime Minister of Israel during his multiple terms as head of government. The latter, known as Julius Jacobs House, is located in
Rehavia ,
West Jerusalem . Ben-Gurion House is located at 17, Ben-Gurion Boulevard in northern
Tel Aviv .
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