BEN-GURION | two letters, to Ted Lurie, 1950-51

BEN-GURION, DAVID

TWO TYPED LETTERS SIGNED, TO TED LURIE, JOURNALIST OF THE JERUSALEM POST

the first on the observance of a national "Army Day", the second thanking him for an article on Thucydides, from whom he claims to have learnt more about war and politics than from any other writer, in Hebrew, 2 pages, 8vo, headed stationery, Tel Aviv, 30 April 1950 and 29 January 1951

BEN-GURION ON THUCYDIDES: INSIGHTS INTO THE MIND OF THE FATHER OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL. Ben-Gurion's understanding of the national need for commemorating fallen soldiers, the subject of his first letter, led to the establishment of Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) on the day before Independence Day. His correspondent, Ted Lurie (d.1974), was a highly distinguished Israeli journalist who became editor of the Jerusalem Post in 1955.

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