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. she wanted something and it was really important to her , Shamai never stood in her way . To me , the news of their marriage meant that Sheyna now had what she most needed and wanted - and that I at last had a brother . In my ...
Golda Meir. she wanted something and it was really important to her , Shamai never stood in her way . To me , the news of their marriage meant that Sheyna now had what she most needed and wanted - and that I at last had a brother . In my ...
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... wanted Morris to be chronically ill . We should leave Merhavia as soon as we could . I have often wondered in the ... wanted very much to have a baby , but Morris was tremendously opposed to the collective child - rearing methods of the ...
... wanted Morris to be chronically ill . We should leave Merhavia as soon as we could . I have often wondered in the ... wanted very much to have a baby , but Morris was tremendously opposed to the collective child - rearing methods of the ...
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... wanted to meet some of the thousands of young American Jews who had besieged Israeli con- sulates throughout the United States in their clamor to be with us in the war . I wanted to know what had impelled them — and oth- ers , like the ...
... wanted to meet some of the thousands of young American Jews who had besieged Israeli con- sulates throughout the United States in their clamor to be with us in the war . I wanted to know what had impelled them — and oth- ers , like the ...
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