Simple. Because for a baal aveireh - it is no mitzva.<br>Making kiddush is a mitzva. But not if you use yayin nesech.>><br><br>I find it hard to believe that some like Ben Gurion (or for that mattter<br>Menachem Begin who was not a shomer mitzvot) for all his faults
<br>was not mekayem yishuv EY.<br>The Gemara credits even Achav and other sinful kings with<br>building the land.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Eli Turkel