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 173
... Haganah , its philosophy and its strength were very largely Elia- hu's creation . He had come to Palestine from Russia in 1909 and , together with Sharett , was among the first graduates of Tel Aviv's Herzlia High School . In the Jewish ...
... Haganah , its philosophy and its strength were very largely Elia- hu's creation . He had come to Palestine from Russia in 1909 and , together with Sharett , was among the first graduates of Tel Aviv's Herzlia High School . In the Jewish ...
Page 174
... Haganah carried out its operations , but its funda- mental purpose , which , when the time came , was taken over al- most intact into the ranks of Israel's army . Of course , there were mistakes ( sometimes costly ones ) and breakdowns ...
... Haganah carried out its operations , but its funda- mental purpose , which , when the time came , was taken over al- most intact into the ranks of Israel's army . Of course , there were mistakes ( sometimes costly ones ) and breakdowns ...
Page 182
... Haganah and whatever arms it managed to accumulate , although now and then there was a lull in the British pursuit until some new restriction or anti - Jewish measure forced the Haganah deeper underground . Two years stand out ...
... Haganah and whatever arms it managed to accumulate , although now and then there was a lull in the British pursuit until some new restriction or anti - Jewish measure forced the Haganah deeper underground . Two years stand out ...
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