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 113
... labor movement - and I went back to work . The Women's Labor Council and its sister organization abroad , the Pioneer Women , were the first and last women's organizations for which I ever worked . I was attracted to them not so much be ...
... labor movement - and I went back to work . The Women's Labor Council and its sister organization abroad , the Pioneer Women , were the first and last women's organizations for which I ever worked . I was attracted to them not so much be ...
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... Labor Zionism , and I can now see why that talk- ative lady accused me of not being sentimental enough— although , as Ben - Gurion once wrote to a colleague of his with whom he was quarreling , " Sentimentality is not a sin , either ...
... Labor Zionism , and I can now see why that talk- ative lady accused me of not being sentimental enough— although , as Ben - Gurion once wrote to a colleague of his with whom he was quarreling , " Sentimentality is not a sin , either ...
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... labor leadership of the country unless a united labor front could be brought into effective existence very soon . Mapai itself had been critically weakened by the secession of Rafi ( the splinter par- ty headed by Ben - Gurion and Dayan ) ...
... labor leadership of the country unless a united labor front could be brought into effective existence very soon . Mapai itself had been critically weakened by the secession of Rafi ( the splinter par- ty headed by Ben - Gurion and Dayan ) ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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