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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... Levi Eshkol , characteristically , undertook to try to calm everyone concerned , but Ben - Gurion was adamant about the need for a juridical inquiry . He was evidently quite prepared to injure his closest colleagues and the party he led ...
... Levi Eshkol , characteristically , undertook to try to calm everyone concerned , but Ben - Gurion was adamant about the need for a juridical inquiry . He was evidently quite prepared to injure his closest colleagues and the party he led ...
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... Levi Eshkol . I must say that I was not in favor of either development . National coalitions - with which I was ... Eshkol's government— which I doubted - I thought that this could and should be done without making major alterations and ...
... Levi Eshkol . I must say that I was not in favor of either development . National coalitions - with which I was ... Eshkol's government— which I doubted - I thought that this could and should be done without making major alterations and ...
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... Levi Eshkol , with whom I had worked for so many years and whom I had loved and admired so much , had a heart attack and died . I was at home alone when the news reached me , and I was stunned . I sat by the phone for several minutes in ...
... Levi Eshkol , with whom I had worked for so many years and whom I had loved and admired so much , had a heart attack and died . I was at home alone when the news reached me , and I was stunned . I sat by the phone for several minutes in ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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