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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... tion . . . . Her eloquence and sincerity , her poise and simplicity have instilled in her hearers a reverence for our cause and respect for our organization . We will endeavor to enlist her admirers on behalf of our work and hope to be ...
... tion . . . . Her eloquence and sincerity , her poise and simplicity have instilled in her hearers a reverence for our cause and respect for our organization . We will endeavor to enlist her admirers on behalf of our work and hope to be ...
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Golda Meir. perhaps it would help find some solution for the Palestine ques- tion . An Anglo - American Committee of ... tion with those near us and those far away . Together with the young and the old survivors in the DP camps , the ...
Golda Meir. perhaps it would help find some solution for the Palestine ques- tion . An Anglo - American Committee of ... tion with those near us and those far away . Together with the young and the old survivors in the DP camps , the ...
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... tion but with great relief — and demanded that the mandate come to an end at once . All the Arabs said that they would have nothing to do with either set of recommendations and threatened war un- less all Palestine was made an Arab ...
... tion but with great relief — and demanded that the mandate come to an end at once . All the Arabs said that they would have nothing to do with either set of recommendations and threatened war un- less all Palestine was made an Arab ...
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