Golda Meir

Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974 · Israel · Politicians · Lived 1898 to 1978 · aged 80 · also Russia

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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.

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1985Colorado Women's Hall of FameAward1978Died8 December 19781975Israel PrizeAward1970“When were Palestinians born? What was all of this area before the First World War when Britain got the Mandate over Palestine? What was Palestine, then?”In their words"Iron Lady of Israeli politics" Thames TV (1970)Read the whole statement

Minister of the Interior of IsraelOffice1969“We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria.”In their words3 October 1969As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32Read the whole statement

“It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.”In their words3 October 1969As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32Read the whole statement

“There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state?”In their words15 June 1969As quoted in Sunday Times (15 June 1969), also in The Washington Post (16 June 1969)Read the whole statement

Prime Minister of IsraelOffice1969-19741956“It is the tragedy of our generation, that small nations have not yet gained the security of exercising their natural right - namely that of being masters of their own destiny.”In their words21 November 1956On the Soviet invasion of Hungary to the UN General Assembly (21 November 1956), as cited in "Excerpts from the U.N. General AssemblyRead the whole statement

Minister of Foreign Affairs, IsraelOffice1956-19661949Knesset memberOffice1949-1974Labor Minister of IsraelOffice1949-19561948“It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave.”In their words6 May 1948As acting head of the Jewish Agency Political Department visited Arab Haifa and reported to the Jewish Agency Executive (6 May 1948); asRead the whole statement

Ambassador of Israel to the Soviet UnionOffice1948-19491898Born3 May 1898

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111327 kibbutz tirat zvi PikiWiki Israel

1914 Golda in Milwaukee

A Memorial for the Holocaust 6 million victims was held at Yad Vashem Museum (FL45792105)

A Memorial for the Holocaust 6 million victims was held at Yad Vashem Museum (FL45792170)

Alignment (1977)

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When were Palestinians born? What was all of this area before the First World War when Britain got the Mandate over Palestine? What was Palestine, then?
1970, "Iron Lady of Israeli politics" Thames TV (1970), Own words
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria.
Oct 3, 1969, As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32, Own words
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Oct 3, 1969, As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32, Own words

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Awards

Colorado Women's Hall of Fame1985

Israel Prize1975

Honorary Doctor of the Bar-Ilan University

Honorary Doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Honorary Doctor of Brandeis University

Order of the Quetzal

Order of the Liberator

Order of the Equatorial Star

Order of José Matías Delgado

Honorary Citizen of Jerusalem

Family

Father Moshe Mabovitch

Golda Meir

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Spouse Morris Meyerson

Child Menachem Meir

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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.

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Israel

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