Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If he (Albert Einstein) accepts, we are in trouble” — Nov. 1952
In 1952, Ben Gurion offers Einstein to become the 2nd president of Israel, while fearing that he might accept. Einstein told, later on, « If I were to be president, sometimes I would have to say to the Israeli people things they would not like to hear ».
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"Tell me what to do if he says yes! I’ve had to offer him the post because it was impossible not to, but if he accepts we are in for trouble.
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To Yitzhak Navon, who was with Ben-Gurion at the time, In Fred Jerome, Einstein on Israel and Zionism, Baraka Books, Montreal, p. 19.
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