The Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies holds a rare copy of Ben-Gurion's collected essays, Hazon ve-derekh (Vision and a Path) with his dedication to his wife. It reads as follows (in English translation): "To Paula, with love, 'I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown' – David." The verse from Jeremiah (2:2, English Standard Version) probably refers to the Ben-Gurion family's move to the wilderness of the Negev desert in southern Israel, after he resigned from his position in 1953. The fifth volume of his essays, which carries this dedication, was published in 1957, two years after he became Prime Minister again.
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Ben Gurion's Dedication
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