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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... thousand years ago . If the Jewish question had been solved two thousand years ago . Keep quiet ! I object to being ... thousands of emaciated survivors tottering out of the death camps into the arms of the liberating British forces ...
... thousand years ago . If the Jewish question had been solved two thousand years ago . Keep quiet ! I object to being ... thousands of emaciated survivors tottering out of the death camps into the arms of the liberating British forces ...
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... thousands upon thousands of these Jews deliberately and courageously chose to make to that sinister warn- ing was something which shattered and overwhelmed me at the time I witnessed it and which has inspired me ever since . There is ...
... thousands upon thousands of these Jews deliberately and courageously chose to make to that sinister warn- ing was something which shattered and overwhelmed me at the time I witnessed it and which has inspired me ever since . There is ...
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... thousands of metal huts , which were better than tents in the winter but like roasting ovens all through Israel's long , hot summer . Still , not a single family that entered Israel in those great waves of immigra- tion ever lacked ...
... thousands of metal huts , which were better than tents in the winter but like roasting ovens all through Israel's long , hot summer . Still , not a single family that entered Israel in those great waves of immigra- tion ever lacked ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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