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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.
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 (1898–1978) Alignment Labor: 17 March 1969 15 December 1969 14th: 15 December 1969 10 March 1974 1969 (7th) ... 2 Eshkol died while in office.
"There was no such thing as Palestinians" is part of a widely repeated statement by Golda Meir, the then Israeli Prime Minister, in her second month in office, made in an interview with Frank Giles, then deputy editor of The Sunday Times on June 15, 1969, to mark the second anniversary of the Six-Day War.
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.
Kaddar said of Meir in 1982, "I don't consider her like a boss. She was a very, very good friend." [12] Kaddar was present with the family when Meir died in 1978. [12] After Meir's death, when asked if she might ever write a memoir, she replied tearfully, "Maybe, maybe. I'm still under the shock of not having Golda." [13]
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 ...
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