Ben-Gurion Way?

I can't help but notice that on many modern mapping sites, N. Franklin is labelled as "Ben-Gurion Way". Is this a true name change, or simply another honorific like the other ones in the Loop (brown street signs)? This one must be special, because I've never seen any of the other honorifics supersede the original name in maps (except MLK Drive, but that was a complete name change). As an aside - I'm not anti-Semitic or anything even close - but doesn't the conflict over Zionism make David Ben-Gurion a bad choice to name a street after? I wonder what the Palestinian Chicagoans think of it.>