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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... Revivim or any other of the small , ill- armed ill - equipped Negev settlements when the full - scale Egyp- tian invasion of Israel began , as it almost certainly would , within only a few hours ? Both Sarah and her Zechariah were ...
... Revivim or any other of the small , ill- armed ill - equipped Negev settlements when the full - scale Egyp- tian invasion of Israel began , as it almost certainly would , within only a few hours ? Both Sarah and her Zechariah were ...
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... Revivim itself that the Egyptian army would smash its way into Israel , bent on destruction . I played with the children , sat with Sarah and Zechariah in the shade of the young trees of which Revivim was so proud , spent an evening ...
... Revivim itself that the Egyptian army would smash its way into Israel , bent on destruction . I played with the children , sat with Sarah and Zechariah in the shade of the young trees of which Revivim was so proud , spent an evening ...
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... Revivim of the 1940s and that is responsible today for each new kibbutz established in Israel is identical , I believe , with the vision that took Israelis into African countries for years to share with the Africans the practical and ...
... Revivim of the 1940s and that is responsible today for each new kibbutz established in Israel is identical , I believe , with the vision that took Israelis into African countries for years to share with the Africans the practical and ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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