Israeli historian Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (1993, 1994), of Ben-Gurion University, described the Zionists' secularizing of the sacred agenda as follows: “God does not exist, but he promised us this land”. In modern secular Zionist nationalism the religious language, theology, myths and fairy tales of the Hebrew Bible are transformed not only into ethno-centric nationalist myths, but also into positively corroborated legal rights and a “title deed” to the land underpinned by sacred documents and a “divine mandate” – a supremacist mandate towering above both indigenous rights and international law. For David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel – who was posthumously named one of Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the twentieth century – international law and UN resolutions were only meant to underpin superior “biblical rights”; if not, the UN was infamously dismissed by Ben-Gurion as Um Shmum, where um is the Hebrew acronymic for the UN, and Shmum, like Klum (“nothing” in Hebrew), is a scorning phrase coined by Ben-Gurion, at an Israeli cabinet meeting on 29 March 1955, as utter contempt towards the UN and international law.