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 90
... night and Saturday breakfast , too . At first this was regarded as being " counterrevolutionary , " but after a while everyone liked the idea of cookies twice a week - for the same money . My most celebrated " bourgeois " contribution ...
... night and Saturday breakfast , too . At first this was regarded as being " counterrevolutionary , " but after a while everyone liked the idea of cookies twice a week - for the same money . My most celebrated " bourgeois " contribution ...
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... night that we had dug in and that no one would be able to disperse or displace us ever again . But I think it was ... night on the night of May 14 , my phone rang . It had been ringing all evening , and as I ran to answer it 229 WE HAVE ...
... night that we had dug in and that no one would be able to disperse or displace us ever again . But I think it was ... night on the night of May 14 , my phone rang . It had been ringing all evening , and as I ran to answer it 229 WE HAVE ...
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... night in my office and thought that it would never end . The time for the actual crossing had been set , originally ... night , waiting for news about the operation . Every ten or fifteen minutes someone would come in and say , " It will ...
... night in my office and thought that it would never end . The time for the actual crossing had been set , originally ... night , waiting for news about the operation . Every ten or fifteen minutes someone would come in and say , " It will ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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