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\u201cMy very dear Ben-Gurion,<\/p>\n

My life\u2019s work has been to serve you.<\/p>\n

I believe with complete faith that the Jewish people would not have achieved independence, nor would it have reached its position in the world without your amazing character.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So ends our story.<\/p>\n

And so began the farewell letter written by Nehemiah Argov, David Ben-Gurion\u2019s military secretary, to the man he admired. The letter is dated November 2, 1957, but several days would go by before Ben-Gurion would read the letter addressed to him.<\/p>\n

Let’s rewind a bit. Our story begins four days earlier, on October 29, 1957. On that day, Moshe Dweck, suffering from a mental illness, tossed a hand grenade from the stands into the plenum of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, which was then at Frumin House on King George Street in Jerusalem. Four ministers were injured in the incident, as well as Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion who was hit by shrapnel and rushed to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

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Headline in the newspaper Haboker<\/a><\/em>, October 30, 1957:\u201dGrenade Tossed in the Knesset \u2013 Ben-Gurion and 4 Ministers Injured\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although Ben-Gurion was only slightly wounded, his loyal military secretary Nehemiah Argov was very worried by the \u201cOld Man\u2019s\u201d condition, and for several days did not leave the Prime Minister\u2019s bedside. And so he wrote in a letter to a friend:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe \u2018Old Man\u2019 will remain in the hospital for a few more days, with injuries to his leg and hand. The shrapnel from his leg will only be removed tomorrow. He is in good condition, and there are no concerns. However, it is hard to see this lion lying in bed . . . this lion\u2019s place is not in a hospital bed!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Four days after the grenade attack on the Knesset, on Saturday, November 2, Argov was driving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to visit the \u201cOld Man,\u201d when he was distracted for an instant, losing control of the wheel and hitting a cyclist named David Kadosh. He placed the injured man in his car and sped to the hospital. Doctors initially feared that Kadosh would not survive the accident.<\/p>\n

Argov was broken by the event and felt that he could not live with his actions. Believing that it was his fault that a life had been taken, he chose to end his own with a gunshot to his temple. He left two letters behind. One letter to his friends and family, and one letter to David Ben-Gurion.<\/p>\n

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David Ben-Gurion and his military secretary Nehemiah Argov, Bitmuna. The Edgar Hirschbein Collection. Collection source: Tamar Levy. The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the letter to his friends he wrote:<\/p>\n

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\u201cToday, the car I was driving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem hit the cyclist David Kadosh. I am afraid that he won\u2019t make it. David Kadosh has a wife and four children. I cannot forgive myself for the injury I have caused to this family. Even if David Kadosh does survive, who knows if he will be able to continue to care for his sacred family?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the letter he asked to leave his money to the victim of the accident and at the end he wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cI imagine I have some friends who will be sorry for what I am going to do. I beg them not to be angry with me for doing what I did. I am not worthy of being mourned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The item published in Haboker<\/a><\/em>, November 4, 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In his farewell to Ben-Gurion, he wrote:<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cI was happy during the ten years that I had the privilege of serving you. I don’t know by whose right I had the privilege to serve you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He signed the letter “Your loving admirer, Nehemiah.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The conclusion of Nehemiah Argov\u2019s letter to David Ben-Gurion, Israel State Archives<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But Ben-Gurion did not read the letter on November 2. Nor the next day either.<\/p>\n

The doctors at Hadassah feared that the news of Argov\u2019s death would worsen Ben-Gurion\u2019s condition, as the Prime Minister was still recovering from the events of the grenade incident.<\/p>\n

In an unprecedented move, the daily Israeli newspapers did something that had never been done before: they printed several special issues of their respective papers without the report of Argov\u2019s death. The censored copies were brought to Hadassah hospital, and David Ben-Gurion, who would read the newspapers every day, remained in the dark about the tragedy.<\/p>\n

We tried our best to locate the special issues at the National Library of Israel and in the archives of the daily newspapers, but unfortunately no copies were preserved.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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“Last night, everything was done to keep this news from the Prime Minister who is at hospital, recuperating from his injuries sustained when a grenade was thrown in the Knesset <\/em>[\u2026] ‘Maariv’ will also print special editions, which will not include this article concerning the Argov affair. Mr. Ben-Gurion is receiving these amended editions today\u2026” – <\/em>Item published in Maariv<\/a><\/em>, November 4, 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ben-Gurion was given the difficult news the next day. As expected, he was shocked and heartbroken. Two weeks later, on the speaker\u2019s podium in the Knesset, he said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing that set Nehemiah apart is that he had one exceptional quality, and that is devotion and loyalty. Nehemiah was a man of the highest dedication . . . Nehemiah was endowed with a precious and rare gift from God\u2014the great gift of love. This was a flame that burned in Nehemiah continuously and by which he was consumed, with love and agony.<\/p>\n

Please permit me to stand here alone, in silence, for a short moment in his memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion napping on the grass during a lunch break on a tour ahead of the Sinai Campaign (1956). Behind Ben-Gurion is his military secretary Col. Nehemiah Argov (reading a newspaper). This image is part of Archive Network Israel and is made available through the collaboration of the Ben Zvi Institute, the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage and the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cyclist David Kadosh, the victim of the accident, eventually made a complete recovery. With the weight of Argov\u2019s suicide on his shoulders, he also sent a letter to David Ben-Gurion, written from his hospital bed:<\/p>\n

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\u201cForgive me and accept my condolences for the great tragedy that has taken your great aide from you, the noble, honest and gentle soul, the late Nehemiah Argov.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The letter<\/a> sent by David Kadosh to David Ben-Gurion, the Ben-Gurion Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Further Reading<\/strong><\/h3>\n

David Ben-Gurion: A Biography<\/a> – by Michael Bar-Zohar<\/p>\n

Nehemiah Argov<\/a> (Hebrew)<\/p>\n

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