The hundreds of vehicles that wound their way through Israel's Negev Desert last week formed a kind of mobile Who's Who. Led by President Zalman Shazar and Premier Golda Meir, the pilgrims were bound for the Negev kibbutz of Sde Boker to pay homage, on his 85th birthday, to former Premier David Ben-Gurion.
Ben-Gurion, the founder-father of Israel and its leader for 15 of the 23 years that it has existed, is not only his country's George Washington but its Thomas Jefferson as well. This week a U.S. edition of his 862-page Israel—a Personal History...
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