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 367
... Syria and to rectifying the Syrian mistake in believing that the guns on top of the Golan Heights that had been pounding away relentlessly at the Jewish villages in the valley below were really in- vincible . I must confess that there ...
... Syria and to rectifying the Syrian mistake in believing that the guns on top of the Golan Heights that had been pounding away relentlessly at the Jewish villages in the valley below were really in- vincible . I must confess that there ...
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... Syrian troops on the Golan Heights , and on the thirteenth of that month an air battle took place with the Syrians , which ended in the downing of thirteen Syrian MIGs . Despite this , our intelli- gence people were very reassuring : It ...
... Syrian troops on the Golan Heights , and on the thirteenth of that month an air battle took place with the Syrians , which ended in the downing of thirteen Syrian MIGs . Despite this , our intelli- gence people were very reassuring : It ...
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... Syrian aggression is an act of madness . We did our best to prevent the outbreak . We appealed to quarters with political influence to use it in order to frustrate this infamous move of the Egyptian and Syrian leaders . While there was ...
... Syrian aggression is an act of madness . We did our best to prevent the outbreak . We appealed to quarters with political influence to use it in order to frustrate this infamous move of the Egyptian and Syrian leaders . While there was ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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