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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... called in Hebrew . But perhaps even today not everyone real- izes that this remarkable movement sprang up spontaneously , and more or less simultaneously , in various parts of Europe to- ward the end of the nineteenth century . It was ...
... called in Hebrew . But perhaps even today not everyone real- izes that this remarkable movement sprang up spontaneously , and more or less simultaneously , in various parts of Europe to- ward the end of the nineteenth century . It was ...
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... called upon to testify in the military court . The prosecutor was a disagreeable gentleman called Major Bax- ter , who was obviously not nearly as interested in the two boys as he was in portraying the Jewish self - defense organization ...
... called upon to testify in the military court . The prosecutor was a disagreeable gentleman called Major Bax- ter , who was obviously not nearly as interested in the two boys as he was in portraying the Jewish self - defense organization ...
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... called the SS Teti ) , I felt that no price demanded of us for this gift could possibly be too high . The first legal immigrant to land in the State of Israel was a tired , shabby old man called Samuel Brand , a survivor of Buchen- wald ...
... called the SS Teti ) , I felt that no price demanded of us for this gift could possibly be too high . The first legal immigrant to land in the State of Israel was a tired , shabby old man called Samuel Brand , a survivor of Buchen- wald ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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