Robert William St. John was an American writer, who wrote at least 23 books, broadcaster, and journalist.
St. John broadcasting on NBC Radio
In the NBC radio newsroom in New York, Robert St. John (at microphone) watches the clock as he prepares to interrupt regular programming with a news bulletin (December 1941).
David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was th
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…covered all four previous Arab-Israeli conflicts. He wrote a dozen or so books about the Middle East and Judaism, including well-reviewed biographies of David Ben-Gurion and Gamal Abdel Nasser. An eloquent non-Jewish spokesman for Jewish causes, he maintained close ties with the Jewish state and was honored by Jewish…
Poalei Zion's "Ezra" group in Płońsk, 1905. David Grün (David Ben-Gurion) in the first row, third on the right
Ben-Gurion with Rachel Nelkin and members of Ezra on eve of their departure to Palestine, August 1906; his father and stepmother sitting in the windows
Ben-Gurion working at Rishon Lezion winery (front row, 6th from right), 1908