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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... kind of center in Denver for the Jewish immigrants from Russia who had come out west for treatment at Denver's famous Jewish Hospital for Consumptives ( in which Sheyna herself had spent so much time ) . Almost all of them were ...
... kind of center in Denver for the Jewish immigrants from Russia who had come out west for treatment at Denver's famous Jewish Hospital for Consumptives ( in which Sheyna herself had spent so much time ) . Almost all of them were ...
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... kind of anxiety alone . Even if a kibbutz is still very young or has had a poor year and the adults have to tighten their belts , kibbutz chil- dren always have enough to eat . I thought often and unhappily about Merhavia during that ...
... kind of anxiety alone . Even if a kibbutz is still very young or has had a poor year and the adults have to tighten their belts , kibbutz chil- dren always have enough to eat . I thought often and unhappily about Merhavia during that ...
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... kind of document that neither party has an interest in keeping , but the kind of peace that will last . We hope that as a result of our meeting we will have taken a significant step forward toward that peace which can mean so much to ...
... kind of document that neither party has an interest in keeping , but the kind of peace that will last . We hope that as a result of our meeting we will have taken a significant step forward toward that peace which can mean so much to ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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