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After leading Israel as head of the Jewish Agency during the 1948 Arab-Israeli

War, Ben-Gurion was elected Prime Minister of Israel when his Mapai (Labour)

party won the largest number of seats in the first national election, held on

14 February 1949. He remained in that post until 1963, except for a period of

nearly two years between 1954 and 1955

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