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Golda Meir
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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?
— "Iron Lady of Israeli politics" Thames TV (1970)
Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
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Lived 1898–1978, aged 80Israel
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Updated 2026-06-21
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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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…
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Golda Meir
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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.
— As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32
Golda Meir
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
— As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32
Golda Meir
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
— Vogue (July 1969)
Golda Meir
said
There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state?
— As quoted in Sunday Times (15 June 1969), also in The Washington Post (16 June 1969)
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