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Golda Meir [nb 1] (née Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government and the first in the Middle East.
Golda Meir: Golda Meir, Israel's only female prime minister to date, was a widow. Her husband, Morris Meyerson, died in 1951 before she became Israel's prime minister. [5] Leah Rabin: June 3, 1974 June 20, 1977 Yitzhak Rabin: First tenure as the wife of the prime minister. Aliza Begin: June 20, 1977 November 13, 1982 Menachem Begin
My Life is the autobiography of the first female Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir. The book was first published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson with the title A Land of our own [1] and later by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1975. [2] [3] The first German translation was published 1973 by the Scherz Verlag in Bern. [4]
Biden frequently recounts his meeting with Golda Meir, the trailblazing first and only woman to serve as Israel’s prime minister. When they met in 1973, she was in her 70s, and Biden, then 30 ...
Polina Zhemchuzhina befriended Golda Meir, who arrived in Moscow in November 1948 as the first Israeli envoy to the USSR. [5] Fluent in Yiddish, Zhemchuzhina acted as a translator for a diplomatic meeting between Meir and her husband, the Soviet foreign minister. However, this claim (of being an interpreter) is not supported by Golda Meir's ...
One of the more famous quips attributed to Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, was her response to how it felt being a woman in an overwhelmingly male political arena.
Mossad found out about the plan to assassinate Golda Meir on January 14, 1973, when a local volunteer informed Mossad that he had handled two telephone calls from a payphone in an apartment block where PLO members sometimes stayed. The calls were in Arabic, which he spoke. Speaking in code, the caller stated that it was "time to deliver the ...
Golda Meir was many things — modern Israel’s first and only female head of government and a wartime prime minister. The great English actor dons prosthetics and an air of sourness in “Golda ...