Editing David Ben-Gurion (section)

=== Marriage and family ===
One of Ben-Gurion's companions when he made the [[Aliyah]] was Rachel Nelkin. Her stepfather, Reb Simcha Isaac, was the leading Zionist in Płońsk, and they had met three years previously at one of his meetings. It was expected that their relationship would continue when they landed in Jaffa but he shut her out after she was fired on her first day labouring{{Emdash}}manuring the citrus groves of Petah Tikva.<ref>Teveth (1987). pp. 20,37,43,44</ref><ref>Bar-Zohar. p. 20. "probably the most profound love he was ever to experience."</ref><ref>Segev p.50</ref>

Whilst in New York City in 1915, he met Russian-born [[Paula Ben-Gurion|Paula Munweis]] and they married in 1917. In November 1919, after an 18-month separation, Paula and their daughter Geula joined Ben-Gurion in [[Jaffa]]. It was the first time he met his one-year-old daughter.<ref>Teveth (1987). pp. 125, 146</ref> The couple had three children: a son, Amos, and two daughters, Geula Ben-Eliezer and Renana Leshem. Amos married Mary Callow, already pregnant with their first child. She was an Irish [[gentile]], and although Reform rabbi [[Joachim Prinz]] converted her to Judaism soon after, neither the Palestine rabbinate nor her mother-in-law Paula Ben-Gurion considered her a real Jew until she underwent an Orthodox conversion many years later.<ref name="Segev2019">{{cite book|author=Tom Segev|title=A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eb9uDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT466|date=24 September 2019|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-1-4299-5184-5|page=466}}</ref><ref name=uipppava>{{cite web|url=http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=36217|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104060124/http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=36217|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 November 2012|title=Mary Ben-Gurion (biographical details)|website=cosmos.ucc.ie|access-date=31 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=8242|title=Amos Ben-Gurion (biographical details)|website=cosmos.ucc.ie|access-date=31 August 2018|archive-date=31 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831035755/http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=8242|url-status=dead}}</ref> Amos became Deputy Inspector-General of the [[Israel Police]], and also the director-general of a textile factory. He and Mary had six granddaughters from their two daughters and a son, Alon, who married a [[Greeks|Greek]] gentile.<ref name="Thakur">{{cite book|author=Pradeep Thakur|title=The Most Important People of the 20th Century (Part-I): Leaders & Revolutionaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFZwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-0-557-77886-7|page=26}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=March 2024}} Geula had two sons and a daughter, and Renana, who worked as a microbiologist at the [[Israel Institute for Biological Research]], had a son.<ref name="apples trees">{{cite news|last=Beckerman|first=Gal|title=The apples sometimes fall far from the tree|url=http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=23263|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=29 May 2006}}</ref>