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 110
... Histadrut regarded every facet of life in the Jewish national home as of equal importance . There were ( and there still are ) two standards by which all Histadrut projects were judged : Did they answer an urgent national need and were ...
... Histadrut regarded every facet of life in the Jewish national home as of equal importance . There were ( and there still are ) two standards by which all Histadrut projects were judged : Did they answer an urgent national need and were ...
Page 143
... Histadrut leadership . We all were paid a fixed basic living wage , which varied only according to actu- al seniority and the number of dependents in each family , and there were no exceptions to this rule . I know that today people in ...
... Histadrut leadership . We all were paid a fixed basic living wage , which varied only according to actu- al seniority and the number of dependents in each family , and there were no exceptions to this rule . I know that today people in ...
Page 144
... Histadrut - was certainly a prerequisite of socialism , however hard up an employed member of the Histadrut might be and regardless of how painful it was to turn over a day's salary each month to a special unemployment fund . But I felt ...
... Histadrut - was certainly a prerequisite of socialism , however hard up an employed member of the Histadrut might be and regardless of how painful it was to turn over a day's salary each month to a special unemployment fund . But I felt ...
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