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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... stayed closer to the sea and its breezes , it would have been easier . But as it was , we were hot , tired and dis ... stay in Tel Aviv for a week or two and then to join a kibbutz . In Milwaukee we had even picked out the kibbutz to ...
... stayed closer to the sea and its breezes , it would have been easier . But as it was , we were hot , tired and dis ... stay in Tel Aviv for a week or two and then to join a kibbutz . In Milwaukee we had even picked out the kibbutz to ...
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... stay home from work in Tel Aviv because I had a headache , they were overjoyed and used to dance around me , singing a little song : " Mommy's staying at home today ! Mommy has a headache ! Mommy's staying at home today ! " It didn't ...
... stay home from work in Tel Aviv because I had a headache , they were overjoyed and used to dance around me , singing a little song : " Mommy's staying at home today ! Mommy has a headache ! Mommy's staying at home today ! " It didn't ...
Page 371
... stay on the Golan Heights after the Syrian army had gone - would live pretty much as they had lived before the Six - Day War . It is never a great pleasure to be accountable to a military government , and none of the Arabs in the ...
... stay on the Golan Heights after the Syrian army had gone - would live pretty much as they had lived before the Six - Day War . It is never a great pleasure to be accountable to a military government , and none of the Arabs in the ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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