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 75
... looked - and were - unplanned , unfinished and frightfully untidy . The May Day riots of 1921 had flooded Tel Aviv with Jewish refugees from Jaffa , and when we came , only a few weeks afterward , several hundred of these refugees were ...
... looked - and were - unplanned , unfinished and frightfully untidy . The May Day riots of 1921 had flooded Tel Aviv with Jewish refugees from Jaffa , and when we came , only a few weeks afterward , several hundred of these refugees were ...
Page 125
... looked rumpled . But his lovely smile lit up his face , and his eyes — always a little sad— looked right through you , so that no one who ever talked to Berl forgot him . I think of him as I saw him , hundreds of times , buried in a ...
... looked rumpled . But his lovely smile lit up his face , and his eyes — always a little sad— looked right through you , so that no one who ever talked to Berl forgot him . I think of him as I saw him , hundreds of times , buried in a ...
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... looked like prison camps , ugly clusters of huts and tents - with a watchtower at each end - set down on the sand , with nothing green or growing any- where in sight . There wasn't nearly enough water for drinking and even less for ...
... looked like prison camps , ugly clusters of huts and tents - with a watchtower at each end - set down on the sand , with nothing green or growing any- where in sight . There wasn't nearly enough water for drinking and even less for ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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