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 84
... Merhavia were such people , and many of them lived to see the Emek become Israel's most fertile and loveli- est valley , dotted by flourishing villages and collective settlements . Merhavia ( its name means God's wide spaces ) was one ...
... Merhavia were such people , and many of them lived to see the Emek become Israel's most fertile and loveli- est valley , dotted by flourishing villages and collective settlements . Merhavia ( its name means God's wide spaces ) was one ...
Page 85
... Merhavia for a few days so that the members could look us over and make their minds up about us on the spot . I was sure that in the end they would let us stay - which was , in fact , what happened . Our Tel Aviv " commune " began to ...
... Merhavia for a few days so that the members could look us over and make their minds up about us on the spot . I was sure that in the end they would let us stay - which was , in fact , what happened . Our Tel Aviv " commune " began to ...
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... Merhavia to accept the dowry without the bride ! That winter I was assigned to work in the kibbutz poultry yard and was sent to an agricultural school for a few weeks to study the finer points of poultry breeding . Years later , when I ...
... Merhavia to accept the dowry without the bride ! That winter I was assigned to work in the kibbutz poultry yard and was sent to an agricultural school for a few weeks to study the finer points of poultry breeding . Years later , when I ...
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