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 137
... weeks she sobbed her heart out and begged me not to leave her . It didn't take the Beth Israel doctors long to arrive at a diagno- sis . Sarah was indeed suffering from a kidney disease , but not the one for which she had been treated ...
... weeks she sobbed her heart out and begged me not to leave her . It didn't take the Beth Israel doctors long to arrive at a diagno- sis . Sarah was indeed suffering from a kidney disease , but not the one for which she had been treated ...
Page 357
... weeks that preceded it will ever , I believe , forget the way in which we faced the terrible danger that confronted us . And no one can possibly understand Israel's reaction to its cur- rent situation without first understanding what we ...
... weeks that preceded it will ever , I believe , forget the way in which we faced the terrible danger that confronted us . And no one can possibly understand Israel's reaction to its cur- rent situation without first understanding what we ...
Page 457
Golda Meir. which had been pressuring us for weeks and weeks to form a Na- tional Unity Government , suddenly decided , as the result of inter- nal difficulties of its own , that it was not going to become a partner in a narrower ...
Golda Meir. which had been pressuring us for weeks and weeks to form a Na- tional Unity Government , suddenly decided , as the result of inter- nal difficulties of its own , that it was not going to become a partner in a narrower ...
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