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 183
... thought it was a wonderful way of life . Secondly , I could quite understand her desire to participate more directly in what was happening in the country . The British had dismissed 85 percent of the Negev as " entirely uncultivable ...
... thought it was a wonderful way of life . Secondly , I could quite understand her desire to participate more directly in what was happening in the country . The British had dismissed 85 percent of the Negev as " entirely uncultivable ...
Page 218
... thought I was in control of my own destiny and could do what I thought right , but since then I have learned otherwise . " Then he went on to say that before he had been alone , but now , " I am one of five , " the other four , we ...
... thought I was in control of my own destiny and could do what I thought right , but since then I have learned otherwise . " Then he went on to say that before he had been alone , but now , " I am one of five , " the other four , we ...
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... thought about that conversation when I was flying from one place to another in the States , I fervently hoped that Sharett himself had forgotten all about it . One day , however , a cable came from Tel Aviv . I glanced at the signature ...
... thought about that conversation when I was flying from one place to another in the States , I fervently hoped that Sharett himself had forgotten all about it . One day , however , a cable came from Tel Aviv . I glanced at the signature ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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