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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: Important, no. A new factor, yes. There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Golda Meir: 5 years and 19 days; Ehud Olmert: 2 years and 351 days [b] Shimon Peres: 2 years and 264 days (first term: 2 years and 37 days; second term: 227 days) Moshe Sharett: 1 year and 281 days; Ehud Barak: 1 year and 245 days; Naftali Bennett: 1 year and 17 days; Yair Lapid: 181 days; Yigal Allon: 19 days (acting)
Golda — which hit U.S. theaters on August 25 — follows the story of Meir, Israel’s first and only Prime Minister, and her navigation of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. When it came to casting ...