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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... Israel , and although less than 50 per- cent of the $ 150,000,000 raised for the UJA in 1948 actually went to Israel ( the rest was turned over to the Joint Distribution Com- mittee for aid to Jews in European countries ) , that 50 ...
... Israel , and although less than 50 per- cent of the $ 150,000,000 raised for the UJA in 1948 actually went to Israel ( the rest was turned over to the Joint Distribution Com- mittee for aid to Jews in European countries ) , that 50 ...
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... Israel or that even if we had gone back far beyond the 1967 lines to some miniature enclave , they would not still have tried to eradicate it and us . Nor am I so naïve as to believe that speeches inevitably persuade everyone of ...
... Israel or that even if we had gone back far beyond the 1967 lines to some miniature enclave , they would not still have tried to eradicate it and us . Nor am I so naïve as to believe that speeches inevitably persuade everyone of ...
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... Israel and elsewhere , will express their Jewishness 1,000 years hence . But I do know that Israel is not just some small beleaguered country in which 3,000,000 people are trying hard to survive ; Israel is a Jewish state that has come ...
... Israel and elsewhere , will express their Jewishness 1,000 years hence . But I do know that Israel is not just some small beleaguered country in which 3,000,000 people are trying hard to survive ; Israel is a Jewish state that has come ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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