David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886-December 1, 1973) was an Israeli statesman; organized the Jewish Legion of American, British and Palestinian Jews, which fought against the Turks in the Holy Land; became founder of the National Council of Palestinian Jews; became a member of the executive body of the Jewish Agency, 1933; became chairman of the Agency, 1935; pleaded the cause of an independent Jewish state before the United Nations, 1947; became prime minister and minister of defense of the provisional government of the new republic of Israel, May 15, 1948; was appointed prime minister in the first cabinet of the first elected government, January 1949; and was prime minister of Israel, 1955-63.
On October 5, 1956, in an interview with Edward R. Murrow, "Person to Person," CBS-TV, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stated:
<In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.> 1886DB001
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1886DB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). David Ben-Gurion, October 5, 1956, comment in an interview with Edward R. Murrow, "Person to Person," CBS-TV. James Beasely Simpson, Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957), p. 302.