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 104
... Jerusalem was the seat of the mandatory govern- ment then , the place from which the British high commission- ers - first Sir Herbert Samuel , who was replaced in 1925 by Lord Plumer - governed the country . As it has always been ...
... Jerusalem was the seat of the mandatory govern- ment then , the place from which the British high commission- ers - first Sir Herbert Samuel , who was replaced in 1925 by Lord Plumer - governed the country . As it has always been ...
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... Jerusalem ever since 1921 , and we knew that not one incident there had ever been caused by Jews . That special council never came into existence , but Jerusalem came and remained for months - under Arab fire . During that siege of ...
... Jerusalem ever since 1921 , and we knew that not one incident there had ever been caused by Jews . That special council never came into existence , but Jerusalem came and remained for months - under Arab fire . During that siege of ...
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... Jerusalem . My mother just stared at me . ' Don't you know , ' she said , ' that there is no such place as Jerusa- lem ? Jerusalem is in heaven . ' Do you think , Mrs. Meir , that you could possibly see her for a minute and tell her ...
... Jerusalem . My mother just stared at me . ' Don't you know , ' she said , ' that there is no such place as Jerusa- lem ? Jerusalem is in heaven . ' Do you think , Mrs. Meir , that you could possibly see her for a minute and tell her ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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