# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/golda-meir
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:57:24.283Z

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name: "Golda Meir"
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description: "She was Israel's only woman prime minister, a Milwaukee schoolteacher turned signatory of independence who spent four years at the top — then watched the Yom Kippur War shatter her legacy in a single October."
tagline: "Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Kiev in 1898, Golda Meir left the Russian Empire for Milwaukee in 1906, became a teacher, and fell in with the Labor Zionists. She and her husband moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1921, settling on a kibbutz before she climbed through the Histadrut and the Jewish Agency. In 1948 she signed the Declaration of Independence. Elected to the Knesset in 1949, she ran Labor until 1956, then served a decade as Foreign Minister under David Ben-Gurion before retiring sick. When Levi Eshkol died in 1969, she came back as prime minister, traveled west courting peace, and then saw Israel blindsided in October 1973. The early losses and the fury that followed broke her government; she resigned in 1974 and died of lymphoma four years later, buried on Mount Herzl with a record historians still argue over.