The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram rated the establishment of the State of Israel as one of the top 20 events of the 20th century. Another paper listed former Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin among the most influential 150 figures of the century.
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