{
  "slug": "david-ben-gurion",
  "name": "David Ben-Gurion",
  "office": null,
  "role": "Prime Minister of Israel",
  "country": "IL",
  "actor_url": "https://thewaronnews.com/actors/david-ben-gurion",
  "incident_count": 1,
  "incidents": [
    {
      "slug": "1948-israel-military-censorship-established",
      "title": "Israel retains a British-era law giving the military the power to review and restrict the press",
      "occurred_on": "1948-01-01",
      "occurred_on_precision": "year",
      "country": "IL",
      "country_name": "Israel",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "IL",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "prior_restraint",
      "tactics": [
        "prior_restraint"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "david-ben-gurion",
      "leader_name": "David Ben-Gurion",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Israel's 1948 declaration of independence and the war that followed created an immediate perceived security need, which the retained British-era Press Ordinance and later Editors' Committee arrangement were meant to address by keeping military information out of print.",
      "outcome": "ongoing",
      "outcome_on": "1989-01-01",
      "outcome_note": "The military press-review system built on the 1948 Press Ordinance and the 1953 Editors' Committee remained in force through the 1980s and beyond.",
      "stage": "silence",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 116,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "1940s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "When Israel declared independence in 1948 under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, it retained a British Mandate-era Press Ordinance giving the military the power to review and restrict publications on security grounds, later formalized through an Editors' Committee that let most Israeli newspapers self-restrict security matters.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1948-israel-military-censorship-established"
    }
  ],
  "downloads": {
    "csv": "https://thewaronnews.com/leaders/david-ben-gurion?format=csv",
    "json": "https://thewaronnews.com/leaders/david-ben-gurion.json",
    "md": "https://thewaronnews.com/leaders/david-ben-gurion.md"
  },
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  }
}