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 93
... everything so thoroughly and with such intensity and who took social problems so seriously . I enjoyed everything about the kibbutz - whether it was working in the chicken coops , learning the mysteries of kneading dough for bread in ...
... everything so thoroughly and with such intensity and who took social problems so seriously . I enjoyed everything about the kibbutz - whether it was working in the chicken coops , learning the mysteries of kneading dough for bread in ...
Page 132
... Everything I cared for was in Palestine . Everything that Clara cared for was in the United States . I was totally committed to Zionism and to the extent that I had embarked on a career ( though I never thought in those terms ) it was ...
... Everything I cared for was in Palestine . Everything that Clara cared for was in the United States . I was totally committed to Zionism and to the extent that I had embarked on a career ( though I never thought in those terms ) it was ...
Page 395
... everything they needed - if not everything they wanted - and those tens of thousands who were still ill housed , ill clothed , undereducated and sometimes even ill fed . For the most part this segment of our population belonged to what ...
... everything they needed - if not everything they wanted - and those tens of thousands who were still ill housed , ill clothed , undereducated and sometimes even ill fed . For the most part this segment of our population belonged to what ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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