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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... tell Maxim , the big , red - faced police- man in our neighborhood , all about her political activites . Of course ... tell Maxim ? " she asked . " I'll tell him that you and all your friends want to do away with the czar , " I would ...
... tell Maxim , the big , red - faced police- man in our neighborhood , all about her political activites . Of course ... tell Maxim ? " she asked . " I'll tell him that you and all your friends want to do away with the czar , " I would ...
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... tell you one thing , Ben - Gurion . If we were to go to Times Square today , stop people in the street and ask them the names of the presidents and prime ministers of most of the important countries in the world , they wouldn't be able ...
... tell you one thing , Ben - Gurion . If we were to go to Times Square today , stop people in the street and ask them the names of the presidents and prime ministers of most of the important countries in the world , they wouldn't be able ...
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... tell the detailed story of what the Jews of Palestine tried to do — and did during the Holocaust , I shall write only about them , although there were many many others , men and women alike , who gave to their people as much as Eliahu ...
... tell the detailed story of what the Jews of Palestine tried to do — and did during the Holocaust , I shall write only about them , although there were many many others , men and women alike , who gave to their people as much as Eliahu ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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