ABSTRACT
David Ben-Gurion’s last government, in which he again served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, was presented to the Knesset and given a vote of confidence on 2 November 1961. It remained in power for less than twenty months until his resignation on 16 June 1963.1
Ben-Gurion’s final term of office in the Ministry of Defence was a period of relative calm where current security was concerned, but which towards its end was marked by three affairs related to basic security issues, which were apparently among the reasons for his decision to resign.
