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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... parents and Sheyna were to move from their miserable , damp little room to a larger , lighter , airier one , and a nurse was to come teach my poor young mother the rudi- ments of child care . so it was thanks to this " foster child ...
... parents and Sheyna were to move from their miserable , damp little room to a larger , lighter , airier one , and a nurse was to come teach my poor young mother the rudi- ments of child care . so it was thanks to this " foster child ...
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... parents ' mind . In tears , I explained that now- adays an education was important , even for a married woman , and argued that in any case I had no intention whatsoever of get- ting married for a very long time . Besides , I sobbed , I ...
... parents ' mind . In tears , I explained that now- adays an education was important , even for a married woman , and argued that in any case I had no intention whatsoever of get- ting married for a very long time . Besides , I sobbed , I ...
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... parents of boys taken prisoner in the War of Attrition , and there were days in the winter of 1973 when I could hardly bring myself to face yet another group of parents , knowing that I had nothing to tell them and that the Egyptians ...
... parents of boys taken prisoner in the War of Attrition , and there were days in the winter of 1973 when I could hardly bring myself to face yet another group of parents , knowing that I had nothing to tell them and that the Egyptians ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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