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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... wanted nothing to do with us . I could hardly take my eyes off them ; they were everything I wanted and hoped to be myself - dedicated , austere and determined . I admired and envied them enormously and wanted them to accept us as com ...
... wanted nothing to do with us . I could hardly take my eyes off them ; they were everything I wanted and hoped to be myself - dedicated , austere and determined . I admired and envied them enormously and wanted them to accept us as com ...
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... wanted Morris to be chronically ill . We should leave Merhavia as soon as we could . I have often wondered in the ... wanted very much to have a baby , but Morris was tremendously opposed to the collective child - rearing methods of the ...
... wanted Morris to be chronically ill . We should leave Merhavia as soon as we could . I have often wondered in the ... wanted very much to have a baby , but Morris was tremendously opposed to the collective child - rearing methods of the ...
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... wanted from Africa was friendship . Let me at once anticipate the cynics . Did we go into Africa because we wanted votes at the United Na- tions ? Yes , of course that was one of our motives - and a perfectly honorable one — which I ...
... wanted from Africa was friendship . Let me at once anticipate the cynics . Did we go into Africa because we wanted votes at the United Na- tions ? Yes , of course that was one of our motives - and a perfectly honorable one — which I ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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