BEN-GURION, DAVID
(First Prime Minister of the State of Israel, 1886-1973). Typed Letter Signed, in Hebrew ...

BEN-GURION, DAVID
(First Prime Minister of the State of Israel, 1886-1973). Typed Letter Signed, in Hebrew, on letterhead of the Minister of Defense, written to Chaim Halperin (professor of agronomy at Hebrew University and Israel Prize laureate, 1895-1973).


Response to Prof. Halprin discussing the discovery of all of Israel’s natural resources. Ben-Gurion also notes: “Many interpretations were written for the Books of Joshua… but they pale in comparison to the new interpretation given this Books during the battles of the War of Independence which sheds a bright light on our past as we renew our independence.”
Single page. Hole-punches. 8vo.
n.p.: 29, March 1955
In an earlier letter Prof. Halperin asserted that all of Israel’s natural resources had been discovered. Ben-Gurion here disagrees on the basis of personal experience hiking and exploring Israel and regularly discovering aspects of Israel previously unseen. Ben-Gurion concludes: “Only a nation that lives in its own land can know, understand, and uncover its hidden treasures.” Born in Kiev, Chaim Halperin read Law and Agrarian Studies at the University of Kharkov before immigrating to Palestine in 1924. Upon the independence of the State of Israel he was appointed the first head of the Ministry of Agriculture before being elected Chairman of the Agrarian Bank of Israel a position he served in until 1971. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1973, and died a few months later. Halperin played a leading role in shaping the policies and development of agriculture in the State of Israel.
In an earlier letter Prof. Halperin asserted that all of Israel’s natural resources had been discovered. Ben-Gurion here disagrees on the basis of personal experience hiking and exploring Israel and regularly discovering aspects of Israel previously unseen. Ben-Gurion concludes: “Only a nation that lives in its own land can know, understand, and uncover its hidden treasures.” Born in Kiev, Chaim Halperin read Law and Agrarian Studies at the University of Kharkov before immigrating to Palestine in 1924. Upon the independence of the State of Israel he was appointed the first head of the Ministry of Agriculture before being elected Chairman of the Agrarian Bank of Israel a position he served in until 1971. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1973, and died a few months later. Halperin played a leading role in shaping the policies and development of agriculture in the State of Israel.