ABSTRACT
In September 1956, the daily newspaper Davar published an article called “Shemot ve techanin” (“Names and Contents”), by “Yariv’s Grandfather.” It soon emerged that the identity behind the pen name was Ben-Gurion.1 This was his way of expressing his ideas and opinions as an ordinary person, specially to avoid being dragged into a sharp argument between himself as prime minister and the Zionist Organization on the eve of the Sinai Campaign.
