My LifeThis is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russia and brought up in Milwaukee, became the prime minister of Israel and one of the political giants of our time without ever losing the warmth and informality for which she is justly celebrated. She herself describes her career as Israel's labor minister, foreign minister, and finally prime minister, against the background of her conflicting roles as a wife and as a mother. This personal story of her own life inevitably reflects also the story of Israel itself -- and of its struggle to survive -- culminating in what was for Golda Meir the most desperate period of all, the terrible days of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. - Jacket flap. |
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Page 137
... Menachem , who hadn't been allowed to visit Sarah in the hospital and who had therefore seen very little of me since we arrived in New York . He was furi- ous that she had already learned some English from the nurses at Beth Israel ...
... Menachem , who hadn't been allowed to visit Sarah in the hospital and who had therefore seen very little of me since we arrived in New York . He was furi- ous that she had already learned some English from the nurses at Beth Israel ...
Page 142
... Menachem was profoundly interested in music and obviously talented . Although , later on , it was usually I who had to carry the cello to and from Menachem's music lessons ( until he was big enough to haul it around himself ) , it was ...
... Menachem was profoundly interested in music and obviously talented . Although , later on , it was usually I who had to carry the cello to and from Menachem's music lessons ( until he was big enough to haul it around himself ) , it was ...
Page 425
... Menachem and Aya had invited a few friends to drop in after dinner . Jews eat dinner early on the eve of Yom Kippur because traditionally it is their last meal for twenty - four hours , and by the time the stars are out the fast has ...
... Menachem and Aya had invited a few friends to drop in after dinner . Jews eat dinner early on the eve of Yom Kippur because traditionally it is their last meal for twenty - four hours , and by the time the stars are out the fast has ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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