Always serving as his own defense minister, he suffered a brief interregnum at the hands of Moshe Sharett but otherwise, for 10 points, who was the prime minister of Israel from the state's 1948 founding to 1963?
The party he founded rebelled against him over the Lavon Affair, causing him to resign from office and spend his latter political life as head of the opposition Rafi party. Earlier, he had created the powerful Histadrut labor confederation and the Mapai party, which eventually became a founding partner of Labor. Always serving as his own defense minister, he suffered a brief interregnum at the hands of Moshe Sharett but otherwise, for 10 points, who was the prime minister of Israel from the state's 1948 founding to 1963?
The party he founded rebelled against him over the Lavon Affair, causing him to resign from office and spend his latter political life as head of the opposition Rafi party.
David {Ben-Gurion} [or David {Gruen}]