So Princeton achieved its primacy thanks to the money of the foundations

In the 1951 photo, David Ben Gurion, founding father of the state of Israel and prime minister of its first government, and Albert Einstein, the most famous German physicist of Jewish parents in the world, are chatting amiably, seated on two wooden garden chairs in front of the house of the latter, in Princeton. In the 2006 novel “Einstein and the God Formula” the Portuguese writer, José Rodrigues dos Santos, imagine that the Israeli prime minister went to see Einstein not as a courtesy visit but rathergiven the tumultuous situation in the Middle East following the creation of the Jewish state, to ask him about the feasibility of an atomic bomb project let's call them light and possibly add the great scientist to this project aimed at guaranteeing the safety of the newborn but already threatened state of Israel.