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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... foreign government could or would ever feel our agonies as we felt them , and no foreign government would ever put the same value on Jewish lives that we did . It wasn't a very complicated lesson to learn , but once it was learned , it ...
... foreign government could or would ever feel our agonies as we felt them , and no foreign government would ever put the same value on Jewish lives that we did . It wasn't a very complicated lesson to learn , but once it was learned , it ...
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... Foreign Office and the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have survived without me for a few more weeks and I would have 238 MY LIFE.
... Foreign Office and the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have survived without me for a few more weeks and I would have 238 MY LIFE.
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... foreign minister of Rumania came to Israel on a visit , ostensibly just to meet with people in our Foreign Office . But he made one special request : He asked to see me , and he stressed that he wanted to see me alone ; no one else ...
... foreign minister of Rumania came to Israel on a visit , ostensibly just to meet with people in our Foreign Office . But he made one special request : He asked to see me , and he stressed that he wanted to see me alone ; no one else ...
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