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David Ben-Gurion looms so large in Israel\\u2019s mythology, it\'s like he\'s George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln all rolled into one\\u2014the country\\u2019s Founding Father and the architect of many of its earliest and most crucial achievements. But maybe the comparison with America\\u2019s greatest presidents is flawed, for while we love nothing more than to discover the humanity of our historical leaders\\u2014Washington chopping down that cherry tree, Jefferson and his indiscretions, Lincoln\\u2019s melancholia\\u2014Ben-Gurion does not lend himself to such intimacy. He appears to be as inscrutable as he is inevitable, there in every major juncture in Israeli history yet never really familiar.

That is, until...

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