This politician left the Mapai upon resigning due to the Lavon Affair, and he and his supporters formed the Rafi party and made and made an unsuccessful attempt to challenge the coalition of this man's successor, Levi Eshkol.
This individual ordered the sinking of  the Altalena on the suspicion that it carried men wishing to launch a coup against him. Years earlier, this man founded a workers' faction known as the Histadrut, which would later merge with similar groups into the Mapai, later his country's labor party. This man increased his nation's population via Operation Magic Carpet, which flew in almost fifty thousand Yemenis "On Wings of Angels". This politician left the Mapai upon resigning due to the Lavon Affair, and he and his supporters formed the Rafi party and made and made an unsuccessful attempt to challenge the coalition of this man's successor, Levi Eshkol. For 10 points, identify this statesman, who, in 1948, became the first prime minister of Israel.
This individual ordered the sinking of  the Altalena on the suspicion that it carried men wishing to launch a coup against him.
David Ben-Gurion [accept David Gruen]