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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... prime minister and minister of defense which began in 1963 ) is a story in its own right . As Israel's prime minister during the Six - Day War he was much ( and most unfairly ) abused for what his critics called his hesitancy — although ...
... prime minister and minister of defense which began in 1963 ) is a story in its own right . As Israel's prime minister during the Six - Day War he was much ( and most unfairly ) abused for what his critics called his hesitancy — although ...
Page 283
... prime minister and minister of defense . The past twenty years had utterly exhausted him , and he asked for a two - year leave of absence . He needed a change of scene , and he was going off to a small Negev kibbutz , Sdeh Boker , not ...
... prime minister and minister of defense . The past twenty years had utterly exhausted him , and he asked for a two - year leave of absence . He needed a change of scene , and he was going off to a small Negev kibbutz , Sdeh Boker , not ...
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... prime minister , and I could certainly understand the reservations of those other people in the country who thought that a seventy - year - old grandmother was hardly the perfect can- didate to head a twenty - year - old state . As for ...
... prime minister , and I could certainly understand the reservations of those other people in the country who thought that a seventy - year - old grandmother was hardly the perfect can- didate to head a twenty - year - old state . As for ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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