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N.Y. ceremony launches
centennial for Ben-Gurion
by Margie Olster
NEW YORK (JTA)—Israeli
Ambassador to the United Nations,
Binyamin Netanyahu. Jerusalem
Mayor Teddy Kollek and New
York City Mayor Edward Koch
shared their personal memories of
Israel’s first prime minister, David
Ben-Gurion, in a ceremony here
last week to kick off America’s
commemoration of the Ben-Gurion
centennial.
To celebrate the 100th birthday
anniversary of the man credited
with leading the Jews to statehood,
the David Ben-Gurion Centennial
Committee of the U.S. has planned
seminars, multi media presenta
tions, educational exhibits and a
May 20 culminating bash in Wash
ington, D.C.
President Reagan has agreed to
serve as honorary chairman of the
centennial committee and numer
ous congressmen also have signed
on.
The celebration will begin in
New York on Thursday, Oct. 16 at
the Jewish Museum with a presen
tation on the American media and
Ben-Gurion. Allon Ben-Gurion,
Ben-Gurion’s grandson, will attend
the ceremony and an interview of
Ben-Gurion by the renowned jour-
| nalist Edward R. Murrow will be
1 presented. Koch said a street in
mid-Manhattan will be renamed
for Ben-Gurion to commemorate
the centennial.
The ceremony, the first public
announcement of the centennial in
America, featured reminiscences
about Ben-Gurion.
Kollek was with Shimon Peres,
Yitzhak Navon and Moshe Dayan,
one of Ben-Gurion’s proteges and
closest companions. He said Ben-
Gurion’s task was the most diffi
cult faced by any statesman of the
20th century, creating a state with
a tiny population against great
odds.
The Zionist idea in the days of
Ben-Gurion did not have the virtu
ally universal approval of world
Jewry as it does today, Kollek said.
He recognized the clash between
traditional Judaism, and a modern
state and searched for the com
promises, Kollek said.
But Kollek focused mainly on
Ben-Gurion the intellectual. He
recalled a trip to America about 40
years ago when he and Ben-Gurion
visited Albert Einstein at Prince
ton University.
Einstein and Ben-Gurion talked
only philosophy for hours, Kollek
said. The two discussed the possi
bility of replacing the human brain
with computers and Ben-Gurion
said nothing could replace human
initiative. Both acknowledged the
idea of a supreme body, a unity
that governed the universe.
Ben-Gurion’s interest in philo
sophy and particularly in Buddhism
took him some years later to a
Burmese Buddhist monastery where
he isolated himself for almost eight
weeks, Kollek said. He brought
with him only his secretary and
body guard. “The world has
changed since then,” he said.
One of the great disappointments
of Ben-Gurion’s life, Kollek said,
was the failure of Israeli youth to
follow his example of settling the
Negev.
Netanyahu, who broke away
from the opening day of the United
Nations General Assembly to attend
the ceremony, recalled Ben-Gurion’s
disdain for the international body.
Nevertheless, he said, “Ben-Gurion
understood the importance of alli
ances.”
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