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 63
... felt about the murder and maiming of Jews overseas , we would earn the respect and sympathy of the rest of the city . It turned out to be an extremely successful parade . Hundreds of people took part in it , although it seemed ...
... felt about the murder and maiming of Jews overseas , we would earn the respect and sympathy of the rest of the city . It turned out to be an extremely successful parade . Hundreds of people took part in it , although it seemed ...
Page 93
... felt completely at home , as though I had never lived anywhere else , and it was just those as- pects of communal life which Morris regarded as impossible bar- riers to happiness that pleased me most . Of course , there were people in ...
... felt completely at home , as though I had never lived anywhere else , and it was just those as- pects of communal life which Morris regarded as impossible bar- riers to happiness that pleased me most . Of course , there were people in ...
Page 350
... felt like a prisoner released from jail . I made long lists of the books I wanted to read , called up old friends whom I hadn't seen for years and planned a series of visits to Revivim . What's more , I cooked , ironed and cleaned house ...
... felt like a prisoner released from jail . I made long lists of the books I wanted to read , called up old friends whom I hadn't seen for years and planned a series of visits to Revivim . What's more , I cooked , ironed and cleaned house ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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