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 136
... weeks , and who knew what would happen to Sarah during those two weeks ? But I felt there was no alternative , and we set out on our dangerous voyage . I don't think I relaxed for one minute during those two weeks . Menachem was very ...
... weeks , and who knew what would happen to Sarah during those two weeks ? But I felt there was no alternative , and we set out on our dangerous voyage . I don't think I relaxed for one minute during those two weeks . Menachem was very ...
Page 137
... weeks she sobbed her heart out and begged me not to leave her . It didn't take the Beth Israel doctors long to arrive at a diagno- sis . Sarah was indeed suffering from a kidney disease , but not the one for which she had been treated ...
... weeks she sobbed her heart out and begged me not to leave her . It didn't take the Beth Israel doctors long to arrive at a diagno- sis . Sarah was indeed suffering from a kidney disease , but not the one for which she had been treated ...
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Golda Meir. which had been pressuring us for weeks and weeks to form a Na- tional Unity Government , suddenly decided , as the result of inter- nal difficulties of its own , that it was not going to become a partner in a narrower ...
Golda Meir. which had been pressuring us for weeks and weeks to form a Na- tional Unity Government , suddenly decided , as the result of inter- nal difficulties of its own , that it was not going to become a partner in a narrower ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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