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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... yishuv — particu- larly on the labor front . The Revisionists accused the Histadrut of a " blood libel " and of maintaining a stranglehold on the yishuv by keeping nonsocialists out of work and thus literally starving out its political ...
... yishuv — particu- larly on the labor front . The Revisionists accused the Histadrut of a " blood libel " and of maintaining a stranglehold on the yishuv by keeping nonsocialists out of work and thus literally starving out its political ...
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... yishuv to protect itself and as an integral part of the Zionist movement . Self - defense , he believed , was ... yishuv's national institutions , regardless of how secret its specific functions might have to be . From this concept ...
... yishuv to protect itself and as an integral part of the Zionist movement . Self - defense , he believed , was ... yishuv's national institutions , regardless of how secret its specific functions might have to be . From this concept ...
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... yishuv then or of their relationship with the Haganah . I leave that to others and the future . But I feel that it would be dishonest for me not to make crystal clear my own atti- tude to the methods ( and philosophy ) of the Irgun Zvai ...
... yishuv then or of their relationship with the Haganah . I leave that to others and the future . But I feel that it would be dishonest for me not to make crystal clear my own atti- tude to the methods ( and philosophy ) of the Irgun Zvai ...
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