Ben-Gurion Part of the Jewish Encounter series Israel"s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel"s founding father and first prime minister. Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the "Old Man," as he was called even then, wa... Full description