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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... thing , but parachuting behind enemy lines was something else . He was already forty years old , had a family , was ... things he did was lead young Jews out of the ghettos of Iraq , across the desert into Palestine at tremendous ...
... thing , but parachuting behind enemy lines was something else . He was already forty years old , had a family , was ... things he did was lead young Jews out of the ghettos of Iraq , across the desert into Palestine at tremendous ...
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... things , to being called Mrs. Meir- the closest I could get to a Hebrew version of Meyerson and still obey Ben ... thing that Nasser needed to do in order for the Egypt he ruled to be acclaimed as the supreme Moslem power , and ...
... things , to being called Mrs. Meir- the closest I could get to a Hebrew version of Meyerson and still obey Ben ... thing that Nasser needed to do in order for the Egypt he ruled to be acclaimed as the supreme Moslem power , and ...
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... thing is the man tells him ! One of his great preoccupations is the bettering of life — and in particular of education — in the development towns , for which he has done a great deal more than most people know . We always worked very ...
... thing is the man tells him ! One of his great preoccupations is the bettering of life — and in particular of education — in the development towns , for which he has done a great deal more than most people know . We always worked very ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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