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== Commemoration == * Israel's largest airport, [[Ben Gurion International Airport]], is named in his honour. * One of Israel's major universities, [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]], located in [[Beersheva]], is named after him. * Numerous streets, as well as schools, throughout Israel have been named after him. * An Israeli modification of the British [[Centurion Tank]] was named after Ben-Gurion * [[Ben Gurion's Hut|Ben-Gurion's Hut]] in Kibbutz [[Sde Boker]] which is now a visitors' center. * A desert research center, [[Midreshet Ben-Gurion]], near his "hut" in Kibbutz [[Sde Boker]] has been named in his honour. Ben-Gurion's grave is in the research center. * An [[English Heritage blue plaque]], unveiled in 1986, marks where Ben-Gurion lived in London at 75 [[Warrington Crescent]], [[Maida Vale]], W9.<ref name='EngHet'>{{cite web| url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/blue-plaques/search/ben-gurion-david-1886-1973|title=Ben-Gurioin, David (1886–1973)|publisher=English Heritage| access-date=20 October 2012}}</ref> * In the [[7th arrondissement of Paris]], part of a riverside promenade of the [[Seine]] is named after him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ejpress.org/article/43542|date=15 May 2010|access-date=10 November 2011|publisher=European Jewish Press|first=Joseph|last=Byron|title=Paris Mayor inaugurates David Ben-Gurion esplanade along Seine river, rejects protests|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405162528/http://www.ejpress.org/article/43542|archive-date=5 April 2012}}</ref> * His portrait appears on both the 500 lirot<ref>{{cite web |url=http://banknote.ws/COLLECTION/countries/ASI/ISR/ISR0042.htm |title=BANKNOTE COLLECTION |publisher=Banknote.ws |access-date=3 August 2012}}</ref> and the 50 (old) sheqalim notes issued by the Bank of Israel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://banknote.ws/COLLECTION/countries/ASI/ISR/ISR0046.htm |title=BANKNOTE COLLECTION |publisher=Banknote.ws |access-date=3 August 2012}}</ref> <gallery> File:PikiWiki Israel 51284 ben gurion house in sde boker.jpg|"Feet on the ground" statue of Ben-Gurion by Rafael Maimon at his "hut" in [[Sde Boker]]. Ben-Gurion was a [[Yoga as exercise|yoga]] enthusiast who would do the same posture as the statue. File:Grave of David Ben Gurion and Paula Munweis in Sde Boker.jpg|Graves of Paula and David Ben-Gurion, [[Midreshet Ben-Gurion]] File:BGsculptureS.jpg|Sculpture of David Ben-Gurion at [[Ben Gurion Airport]], named in his honour File:Esplanade Ben Gourion.JPG|Esplanade Ben Gourion, Paris, near the Seine, in front of the Musée du Quai Branly File:David Ben Gurion birth place.jpg|David Ben-Gurion Square—site of the house where Ben-Gurion was born, Płońsk, Wspólna Street. File:Płońsk - tzw. Bengurionówka, Plac 15 Sierpnia 21, 21A (ziel).JPG|House at town square in Płońsk, Poland, where David Ben-Gurion grew up File:DAVID BEN-GURION 1886-1973 First Prime-Minister of Israel lived here.jpg|[[English Heritage blue plaque]] where Ben-Gurion lived in London File:Israel Ben-Gurion stamps 1974.webp|1974 Israel memorial stamps </gallery>
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