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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... waiting for me in the street , that it was a perfectly acceptable thing to do . But my father was so angry that he didn't listen to a word I said . My mother stood between us like a referee at a fight , and we went on arguing at the top ...
... waiting for me in the street , that it was a perfectly acceptable thing to do . But my father was so angry that he didn't listen to a word I said . My mother stood between us like a referee at a fight , and we went on arguing at the top ...
Page 225
... waiting to take me to the museum . It had been decided to hold the ceremony at the Tel Aviv museum on Rothschild Boulevard , not because it was such an imposing building ( which it wasn't ) , but because it was small enough to be easily ...
... waiting to take me to the museum . It had been decided to hold the ceremony at the Tel Aviv museum on Rothschild Boulevard , not because it was such an imposing building ( which it wasn't ) , but because it was small enough to be easily ...
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... waiting at the airport for an El Al plane to collect them . " But I could see that it was no use . Nothing I said would make any difference . Above all , Kreisky wanted to avoid more trouble with the Arabs . I thanked him for having ...
... waiting at the airport for an El Al plane to collect them . " But I could see that it was no use . Nothing I said would make any difference . Above all , Kreisky wanted to avoid more trouble with the Arabs . I thanked him for having ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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