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 131
... party called Mapam ( the United Workers Party ) . Later again , at the end of the 1960s , there were to be other fateful combinations and changes . But Mapai remained dominant throughout the years . Its history has been that of the ...
... party called Mapam ( the United Workers Party ) . Later again , at the end of the 1960s , there were to be other fateful combinations and changes . But Mapai remained dominant throughout the years . Its history has been that of the ...
Page 154
... party , and later the gov- ernment , in an autocratic way . At one party meeting when this charge was leveled at him , he appealed to a minister whom he re- garded as being beyond reproach from the point of view of intel- lectual ...
... party , and later the gov- ernment , in an autocratic way . At one party meeting when this charge was leveled at him , he appealed to a minister whom he re- garded as being beyond reproach from the point of view of intel- lectual ...
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... party became the prime targets of Ben - Gu- rion's fury . I couldn't forgive Ben - Gurion either for the ruthless way in which he was pursuing Eshkol or for the way in which he treated and spoke about the rest of us , myself included ...
... party became the prime targets of Ben - Gu- rion's fury . I couldn't forgive Ben - Gurion either for the ruthless way in which he was pursuing Eshkol or for the way in which he treated and spoke about the rest of us , myself included ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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