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When David Ben-Gurion resigns as Prime Minister of Israel, his opponents are usually in trouble. Last week he quit for the seventh time, dashing off his letter of resignation after a brisk three-mile constitutional at a resort on the Sea of Galilee. He then cut the letter by 80% and bounced into an emergency Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, his hair so wildly askew that reporters agreed: "The old man's in a fighting mood." The letter itself was full of cloudy references to "the rule of law, the separation of powers . . . the call of my conscience...
...Defense Minister at the time, resigned for his role in the affair. But he was able to prove to a meeting of the Israeli Cabinet six weeks ago that forged papers had been used as part of the evidence that had forced him out of office. Though Ben-Gurion stormed from the room, the Cabinet cleared Lavon of any responsibility for the 1954 fiasco...
...Gurion, Lavon's conduct in 1961 was far more dangerous than whatever he had or had not done in 1954. At stake was Ben-Gurion's plan to bypass aging party chieftains such as Lavon and hand over power one day to Mapai's bright young men, headed by Moshe Dayan, 45, the one-eyed general who was army chief in 1954 and is now Minister of Agriculture and Ben-Gurion's chosen political heir. By suddenly resigning, Ben-Gurion in effect forced the party to choose between himself and Lavon...
Disappointed that the world's largest and most vigorous Jewish community-the 5,500,000 U.S. Jews-has sent practically no emigrants to help build the new Zion, Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion stirred a storm when he bluntly told the 25th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem that from the time of Israel's establishment in 1948, "every religious Jew has daily violated the precepts of Judaism by remaining in exile...
...Gurion's blast has touched off an embarrassed dispute among U.S. Jewish leaders about their relationship to Israel. First to react was Philadelphia-born Rabbi Israel Goldstein, 64, former president of the American Jewish Congress. Stung by Ben-Gurion's reproaches, Goldstein stayed on after last fortnight's congress, the first top-ranking U.S. Jew to settle in Israel. But in the U.S., liberal and conservative rabbis alike condemned Ben-Gurion's theology as "erroneous." The American Jewish Committee declared itself "grieved and shocked" by the suggestion that Jews have an obligation to emigrate to Israel...