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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... father and told us about it often , but although I came to know the story by heart , I never tired of hearing it . My parents had married very unconventionally , without the benefit of a shadchan , the tradition- al matchmaker . I don't ...
... father and told us about it often , but although I came to know the story by heart , I never tired of hearing it . My parents had married very unconventionally , without the benefit of a shadchan , the tradition- al matchmaker . I don't ...
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... 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 of our voices . In the end neither of us gave in . My father , red in the face with ...
... 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 of our voices . In the end neither of us gave in . My father , red in the face with ...
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... father , now that I come to think of it , was in a way typical of the immigrants of 1926 and 1927 , even though he had come from the States and not from Europe . In Milwaukee he had managed to save up a little money , with which he ...
... father , now that I come to think of it , was in a way typical of the immigrants of 1926 and 1927 , even though he had come from the States and not from Europe . In Milwaukee he had managed to save up a little money , with which he ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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