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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... foreign affairs , became Israel's prime minister , and in January , 1954 , Ben - Gurion went off to Sdeh Boker ( where he stayed until 1955 , when he returned to public life first as minister of defense and then as prime minis- ter ...
... foreign affairs , became Israel's prime minister , and in January , 1954 , Ben - Gurion went off to Sdeh Boker ( where he stayed until 1955 , when he returned to public life first as minister of defense and then as prime minis- ter ...
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... Foreign Ministry or trying to get or- ganized in the foreign minister's residence ( to which I had moved in the summer ) , I found myself longing to talk to someone about what I knew was going to happen on October 29. There is nothing ...
... Foreign Ministry or trying to get or- ganized in the foreign minister's residence ( to which I had moved in the summer ) , I found myself longing to talk to someone about what I knew was going to happen on October 29. There is nothing ...
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... foreign officers , " he said , " not mine and not yours . " He suggested that his deputy foreign minister main- tain personal contact with me through Simcha Dinitz , then my po- litical secretary , who had come with me to Bucharest ...
... foreign officers , " he said , " not mine and not yours . " He suggested that his deputy foreign minister main- tain personal contact with me through Simcha Dinitz , then my po- litical secretary , who had come with me to Bucharest ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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