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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Golda Meir. 14. The Yom Kippur War Of all the events upon which I have touched in this book , none is so hard for me to write about as the war of October , 1973 , the Yom Kippur War . But it happened , and so it belongs here — not as a ...
Golda Meir. 14. The Yom Kippur War Of all the events upon which I have touched in this book , none is so hard for me to write about as the war of October , 1973 , the Yom Kippur War . But it happened , and so it belongs here — not as a ...
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... Yom Kippur ( the Day of Atone- ment ) was to begin on Friday evening , and most people in Israel were taking a long weekend . I suppose that by now , thanks in part to the war , even non - Jews who had never heard of Yom Kippur before ...
... Yom Kippur ( the Day of Atone- ment ) was to begin on Friday evening , and most people in Israel were taking a long weekend . I suppose that by now , thanks in part to the war , even non - Jews who had never heard of Yom Kippur before ...
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... Yom Kippur War . person Then , however , I sat in the office , thinking and agonizing until I just couldn't sit there anymore and I went home . Menachem and Aya had invited a few friends to drop in after dinner . Jews eat ... YOM KIPPUR WAR.
... Yom Kippur War . person Then , however , I sat in the office , thinking and agonizing until I just couldn't sit there anymore and I went home . Menachem and Aya had invited a few friends to drop in after dinner . Jews eat ... YOM KIPPUR WAR.
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