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 82
... fact that both her small children were sick and Shamai was so far away and the post- al service so inefficient that she only got letters from him months after they were written or how determined Morris was to stick it out despite his ...
... fact that both her small children were sick and Shamai was so far away and the post- al service so inefficient that she only got letters from him months after they were written or how determined Morris was to stick it out despite his ...
Page 83
... fact , ever since I was a little girl , I can remember the small tin blue collection box that stood next to the Sabbath candles in our living room and into which not only we but our guests dropped coins every week , and this blue box ...
... fact , ever since I was a little girl , I can remember the small tin blue collection box that stood next to the Sabbath candles in our living room and into which not only we but our guests dropped coins every week , and this blue box ...
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... facts of life have to be faced , however painful they are . It should go without saying that noth- ing will ever diminish the impact of the Holocaust . Six million murdered Jews are also a fact of life , a fact that must never be erased ...
... facts of life have to be faced , however painful they are . It should go without saying that noth- ing will ever diminish the impact of the Holocaust . Six million murdered Jews are also a fact of life , a fact that must never be erased ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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