"Uncle Ben Rush"

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DAVID BEN RUSH (JANUARY 29, 1924 - JANUARY 15, 1999) WAS THE FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE NORTH AFRICAN LIKUD, WHOSE PARTNER WAS FROM WADI SLYB. HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT ACTIVISTS IN THE EVENTS AND EDDIE SULLIVAN, WHO BECAME A SYMBOL OF THE STRUGGLE OF THE EAST AGAINST THE PERSECUTION AND DISCRIMINATION.

BIOGRAPHY
HE WAS BORN IN MOROCCO AND ENDED SEVEN YEARS OF STUDY. HE THEN WORKED ON MAKING WALLETS. HE IMMIGRATED TO ISRAEL IN 1948 AS PART OF THE HUMILIATION AND WAS IMPRISONED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS IN THE CAMPS IN CYPRUS. IN ISRAEL, HE LIVED IN WADI SALIB IN THE CITY OF HAIFA. AFTER HE WAS RELEASED FROM THE IDF IN 1949, HE JOINED THE POLICE AND WORKED AS AN ISRAELI TRAIN OFFICER UNTIL 1956, WHEN HE WAS RELEASED FOR HEALTH REASONS. WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE WAS ACCEPTED TO WORK IN THE ELECTRIC COMPANY BUT RESIGNED IN 1957. THEN HE GOT FROM THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE TO OPEN A COFFEE HOUSE IN WADI SALIB. THE "ROSULIO" COFFEE HOUSE WAS MOSTLY NEW IMMIGRANTS FROM MOROCCO. ON JULY 9, 1959, POLICE ARRIVED AT THE CAFE FOLLOWING A CATALYZ AND ACTED WITH EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE. LATER, ONE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COFFEE HOUSE THAT WAS DRUNK WAS SHOT IN HIS LEG, AND REMAINED PARALYZED IN THE LOWER BODY. THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS RUMORED THAT THE MAN WAS KILLED. THE RUMOR WAS USED AS A CATALYST THAT CAUSED THE OUTBREAK OF RAGE AND FRUSTRATION OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE ECONOMIC DIFFICULTY AND THEIR CLAIMS OF DISCRIMINATION AND OPPRESSION FROM THE GOVERNMENT. THE NEIGHBORHOOD BROKE OUT OF THE RIOTS THAT WERE EXPOSED TO THE CENTER OF HAIFA, WHERE THE WADI RESIDENTS TRIED, AND THEIR SON WAS SHOT IN THEIR HEADS, TO REACH THE OFFICES OF THE DAR AND THE CARMEL AND TO HARM THE OFFICES OF THE FAJ AND THE DIVISIONS. THE RIOTS WERE SEVERELY DAMAGED BY THE POLICE AND WERE WOUNDED ON BOTH SIDES.

BEN KHRUSH WAS CONVICTED OF A POLICEMAN’S DISTURBANCE AND HELD A GUN WITHOUT A LICENSE AFTER ONE SHOT IN THE AIR TO PREVENT POLICE FROM ENTERING ONE OF HIS FRIENDS’ APARTMENT AND SENTENCED HIM TO 24 MONTHS IN ACTUAL PRISON. IN AN APPEAL TO ISAAC COHEN, OGENIA WENGRADOV AND JACOB AZOULAY WAS REDUCED TO 10 MONTHS AFTER THE COURT RULED THAT BECAUSE THE CAPITALS WERE MADE IN ONE CHAIN OF EVENTS, THE PENALTIES FOR THE OFFENSES SHOULD BE OVERLAPPED. AT THE END OF ONE OF THE DISCUSSIONS IN THE TRIAL, THE SON OF THE GUNMAN ATTACKED A POLICEMAN. FOLLOWING THIS INCIDENT, HE WAS SENTENCED TO TWO MONTHS IN PRISON. IN TOTAL, THE SON OF THE KHRUSH RAN ONLY SIX MONTHS IN PRISON AFTER THE PRESIDENT OF THE STATE OF ISAAC BEN-SOCHY WAS TRAINING HIM.

FOLLOWING THE EVENTS, A STATE INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE LED BY JUDGE MOSHE ATHEISM TO EXAMINE THE CAUSE OF THE RIOTS AND CONDITIONS OF THE PEOPLES OF NORTH AFRICA IN ISRAEL.
BEN KHRUSH RAISED THE SUBJECT OF DISCRIMINATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. THE SON OF THE FACTORY POINTED TO THE MISSING HAND THAT DEALT WITH THE DISTRIBUTION OF ABANDONED PROPERTY IN WADI. HE OFFERED THE INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE THE INEQUALITIES BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE BORROWER FROM MOROCCO.

WHILE HE WAS IN PRISON, BEN RUSH FACED THE ELECTIONS FOR THE FOURTH KNESSET ON BEHALF OF THE NORTH AFRICAN LIKUD LIST. THE LIST RECEIVED ABOUT 8,200 VOTES AND WAS MISSING 1,200 VOTES TO PASS THE THRESHOLD PERCENTAGE.

AFTER HIS RELEASE TO FREEDOM, BEN HOKKA MOVED TO LIVE IN A LIFETIME AND DISAPPEARED FROM THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE. HIS NAME IS STREET IN HAIFA.

ANOTHER READING.
YITZVAH WEISS, WADI SLYOV: THE PRESENCE AND GOVERNOR, JERUSALEM: THE JOHN LEAR INSTITUTE IN JERUSALEM: THE REMOVAL OF THE UNITED KIBBUTZ, WILL CONVENE 2007
RON SPIEGEL AND LILY NEGLES, "AND EDDIE SULLIVAN THE MYTH AND BROKEN": EVENTS AND EDDIE SLYOV IN A NEW LOOK, THE PUBLICATION OF "BORMAN", HAIFA, 2009

EXTERNAL LINKS
DAVID BEN KHMER DESCRIBES THE LEADERS OF THE EVENTS AND EDDIE SULLIVAN, HIS EXPERIENCES IN THE DAMON PRISON AND HIS CONDITIONS.
MOODY BAR OWEN, "ALL PEOPLE: DAVID BEN-HACKER"

MARGINAL COMMENTS

ISRAELI POLITICAL ACTIVISTS
EASTERN SOCIAL ACTIVISTS
CONVICTED OF CRIMES AGAINST IDEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND IN ISRAEL
ISRAELIS WHO RECEIVED PARDON
ISRAELI BORN MOROCCO
RISING AFTER WORLD WAR II
ISRAELIS BORN IN 1924
ISRAELIS WHO DIED IN 1999