The once Zionist renegade is now part of the Israeli mainstream - but was he more terrorist or freedom fighter?
David Ben-Gurion won the elections and became Israel's first prime minister and Chaim Weizmann became Israel's first president.
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Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
Israel would become a country in which the citizens literally have no rights unless the government allows it.