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 123
... camps of Europe and the ghettos of the Arabic - speaking states , and the only way that we could house this torrent of people was by setting up camps of our own for them . One day Eshkol burst into my office . " We've got to get them ...
... camps of Europe and the ghettos of the Arabic - speaking states , and the only way that we could house this torrent of people was by setting up camps of our own for them . One day Eshkol burst into my office . " We've got to get them ...
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... camps . Each month , with great precision , the British allowed exactly 1,500 Jews to enter Palestine : 750 from the camps of Europe and 750 from Cyprus . The principle under which this policy operated in Cyprus was " first in , first ...
... camps . Each month , with great precision , the British allowed exactly 1,500 Jews to enter Palestine : 750 from the camps of Europe and 750 from Cyprus . The principle under which this policy operated in Cyprus was " first in , first ...
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... camps the next day . He listened to me very stiffly and then said , " I know all about the families with babies ... camps themselves were even more depressing than I had expected , in a way worse than the camps for DPs that were being ...
... camps the next day . He listened to me very stiffly and then said , " I know all about the families with babies ... camps themselves were even more depressing than I had expected , in a way worse than the camps for DPs that were being ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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