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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... Pinsk . In 1939 , when I was in Poland on a mission for the labor movement , I fell ill on the very day I was to visit the town , and the trip was can- celed . Then , in the summer of 1948 , when I was appointed Isra- el's minister to ...
... Pinsk . In 1939 , when I was in Poland on a mission for the labor movement , I fell ill on the very day I was to visit the town , and the trip was can- celed . Then , in the summer of 1948 , when I was appointed Isra- el's minister to ...
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... Pinsk held for me . I can remember a row of big buildings on a street that led to the river and the monastery that ... Pinsk , as I should have . " A golden child , they called you , " my mother said . “ Always busy with something ...
... Pinsk held for me . I can remember a row of big buildings on a street that led to the river and the monastery that ... Pinsk , as I should have . " A golden child , they called you , " my mother said . “ Always busy with something ...
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... Pinsk with their flashing swords . It was from these conver- sations that I gathered that something frightful had happened to the Jews of Kishinev and that in Pinsk the Jews were planning to defend themselves with arms and homemade ...
... Pinsk with their flashing swords . It was from these conver- sations that I gathered that something frightful had happened to the Jews of Kishinev and that in Pinsk the Jews were planning to defend themselves with arms and homemade ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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