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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... happening in Russia ( he hated the Bolsheviks ) , the place Hebrew had to occupy in the Zionist revolution , the impor- tance of publishing good entertaining ... happened all the time in 1944 , and I was a bit worried when I 128 MY LIFE.
... happening in Russia ( he hated the Bolsheviks ) , the place Hebrew had to occupy in the Zionist revolution , the impor- tance of publishing good entertaining ... happened all the time in 1944 , and I was a bit worried when I 128 MY LIFE.
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... happening to all of you ? " " Tell me , " I asked him , " what would have been the reaction in England if something similar had happened to the British ? " He was so astonished at my question that he almost ... happened to 452 MY LIFE.
... happening to all of you ? " " Tell me , " I asked him , " what would have been the reaction in England if something similar had happened to the British ? " He was so astonished at my question that he almost ... happened to 452 MY LIFE.
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... happened since the afternoon of October 6 had happened on one endless day and I wanted that day to end . I was deeply distressed by the breaking down of solidarity within the inner circle of the party . People who had been ministers in ...
... happened since the afternoon of October 6 had happened on one endless day and I wanted that day to end . I was deeply distressed by the breaking down of solidarity within the inner circle of the party . People who had been ministers in ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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