David Ben-Gurion: Guardian of Israel

April 29, 2009 Popular Culture

This apocryphal factoid seemed appropriate for Yom Ha’atzmaut. From a 2003 Hadassah article:

According to Jewish educator and comics fan and writer Alan Oirich, artist Gil Kane based his design of the large-headed, balding Guardians of the Universe in DC’s Green Lantern on David Ben-Gurion.

You be the judge:


Image from Cracked

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Rabbi Yuter has been blogging at YUTOPIA since 2003 and currently lives in Jerusalem.

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