Watch Our Discussion on How David Ben-Gurion Bore the Burdens of Statesmanship, and How Israelis Can Today

“David Ben-Gurion was Israel’s Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton in one,” Neil Rogachevsky writes in Mosaic’s feature essay this month.

Ben-Gurion was guided by a simple idea, what he called mamlakhtiyut, or statesmanship. In Israel, such an attitude is more important now than it has been in generations. To understand better how Ben-Gurion applied this concept to the challenges of his time and to think about what it can teach Israelis today, Mosaic invited Rogachevsky to speak with the Israeli historian Avi Shilon and the Israeli political analyst Ran Baratz, all moderated by Mosaic’s editor Jonathan Silver. They spoke on Tuesday, January 30. The video of the event and a lightly edited transcript are below.

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