VOCABULARY born - urodzony empire - imperium, cesarstwo from an early age - od wczesnych lat committed Zionist - zdeklarowany syjonista ardent socialist - żarliwy socjalista at the age of twenty - w wieku 20 lat to move - tu: przenieść się, wyemigrować to adopt - przyjąć Hebrew - hebrajski initially - początkowo journalist - dziennikarz to expel - wydalić to settle - osiedlić się to return - wrócić the First World War - pierwsza wojna światowa land - tu: kraj, rejon, obszar to come under the rule - dostać się pod panowanie to be at the forefront - stać na czele

Lesson 5
David Ben-Gurion

Born in Płońsk in 1886 in what is today Poland and was then part of the Russian Empire, Ben-Gurion's original name was David Grün.

He was, from an early age, a committed Zionist and an ardent socialist.

In 1906, at the age of twenty, he moved to Palestine where he adopted the Hebrew version of his name, Ben-Gurion, and worked initially as a journalist.

He was expelled from the region in 1915 and settled in New York for a number of years, only returning to Palestine after the First World War when the land had come under the rule of the British.

For the next thirty years Ben-Gurion was at the forefront of political Zionism.

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