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 63
... took part in it , although it seemed impossible that there were so many Jews in Milwaukee . Incidentally , it came as a sur- prise to me ( despite my brave words to the store owner ) that so many non - Jews participated in that ...
... took part in it , although it seemed impossible that there were so many Jews in Milwaukee . Incidentally , it came as a sur- prise to me ( despite my brave words to the store owner ) that so many non - Jews participated in that ...
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... took Israelis into African countries for years to share with the Africans the practical and theoretical knowledge that alone could answer Africa's needs in a changing world in which it was , at last , responsible for its own des- tiny ...
... took Israelis into African countries for years to share with the Africans the practical and theoretical knowledge that alone could answer Africa's needs in a changing world in which it was , at last , responsible for its own des- tiny ...
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... took the reports about the endless Egyptian violations of the cease - fire very seriously . But we did , because we knew what those violations foretold , and we began to build a fortified defense line - the Bar - Lev line - to protect ...
... took the reports about the endless Egyptian violations of the cease - fire very seriously . But we did , because we knew what those violations foretold , and we began to build a fortified defense line - the Bar - Lev line - to protect ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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