Today, 76 years ago, on 25 January 1949 (Calendar 27 December 1948), in the first Israeli election, David Ben-Gurion was elected prime minister. David Ben-Gurion (born 16 October 1886 in Poland, died 1 December 1973 in Tel-Haymo) was an Israeli politician, the first prime minister, who served from 1948 to 1953 and 1955 to 1963. He was a fierce Zionist in his youth, and in 1906 he came to Palestine. First he worked as a journalist, and at the beginning of his political career he changed the Jewish name to Ben-Gurion. In 1921 he organized the General Union of Israel. To the State of Israel, Ben-Gurion was the leading leader of the Jewish Nationalist working class, and in 1930 he founded the Israeli Industrial Party. Three decades after the establishment of Israel,