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 86
... kibbutz members still work an eight - hour day at whatever jobs are assigned to them by the work committee , although nowadays they are usually able to do the work they do best , have been trained to do and enjoy . Everyone still takes ...
... kibbutz members still work an eight - hour day at whatever jobs are assigned to them by the work committee , although nowadays they are usually able to do the work they do best , have been trained to do and enjoy . Everyone still takes ...
Page 93
... kibbutz could possibly afford in the 1920s , and I wasn't especially bothered by their absence . I enjoyed being with people who were my kind of people , who shared my political and social views , who debated everything so thoroughly ...
... kibbutz could possibly afford in the 1920s , and I wasn't especially bothered by their absence . I enjoyed being with people who were my kind of people , who shared my political and social views , who debated everything so thoroughly ...
Page 94
... kibbutz , and the kibbutz liked me and showed it . To be- gin with , I was elected to the settlement's " steering " committee— the committee that was responsible for setting overall policy- which was a great honor for a relative ...
... kibbutz , and the kibbutz liked me and showed it . To be- gin with , I was elected to the settlement's " steering " committee— the committee that was responsible for setting overall policy- which was a great honor for a relative ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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