David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder of the State of Israel

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Israeli politician Zionist leader human prime minister

David Ben-Gurion was an Israeli statesman who became the country’s first prime minister and a central leader in its early political and military establishment.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Israeli politician → Zionist leader → human → prime minister →
birthDate	1886-10-16 →
birthName	David Grün →
birthPlace	Płońsk, Congress Poland, Russian Empire →
burialPlace	Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Negev, Israel →
citizenship	Israel → Mandatory Palestine → Ottoman Empire →
deathDate	1973-12-01 →
deathPlace	Ramat Gan, Israel →
education	University of Istanbul (law studies, not completed) →
event	read the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 1948-05-14 →
founded	Rafi (political party) →
fullName	David Ben-Gurion →
ideology	Labor Zionism →
immigratedTo	Ottoman Palestine →
knownFor	declaring the establishment of the State of Israel → first Prime Minister of Israel → leading the 1948 Arab–Israeli War effort → primary national founder of the State of Israel →
legacy	considered one of the founding fathers of the State of Israel →
memberOf	Jewish Agency Executive → World Zionist Organization →
militaryRole	oversaw creation of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) →
nationality	Israeli → Jewish →
numberOfChildren	3 →
occupation	military leader → politician → statesman →
officeEnd	1953-01-26 → 1963-06-26 →
officeStart	1948-05-14 → 1955-11-03 →
politicalParty	Mapai → Rafi →
positionHeld	Chairman of the Provisional State Council of Israel → Head of the Jewish Agency → Minister of Defense of Israel → Prime Minister of Israel →
religion	Judaism →
residence	Sde Boker, Negev, Israel →
servedIn	Haganah → Israel Defense Forces →
spouse	Paula Ben-Gurion →
yearOfAliyah	1906 →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
creationOfStateOfIsrael → creationOfStateOfIsrael ("David Ben-Gurion read the Declaration of Independence") →	keyFigureRole