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This is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russia and brought up in Milwaukee, became the prime minister of Israel and one of the political giants of our time without ever losing the warmth and informality for which she is justly celebrated. She herself describes her career as Israel's labor minister, foreign minister, and finally prime minister, against the show more background of her conflicting roles as a wife and as a mother. This personal story of her own life inevitably reflects also the story of Israel itself -- and of its struggle to survive -- culminating in what was for Golda Meir the most desperate period of all, the terrible days of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. - Jacket flap. The former Israeli Prime Minister recounts her life and times, describing her troubled early childhood in Russia, her years in America, her Zionist and socialist activities, and her life in Israel as wife, mother, and key political figure. show less

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A well written first hand account of the formation of Israel by her "founding mother."
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NO OF PAGES: 480 SUB CAT I: Biography SUB CAT II: History SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Golda Meir tells of the terrors of childhood, her stormy adolescence, her marriage and emigration to Palestine in the 1920's, her political career as Israel's labor minister, foreign minister, and finally prime minister, as well as her role as wife and moNOTES: SUBTITLE:
Autobiography of Israel's first female (and only) prime minister
Indeholder "1. Min barndom", "2. Opvækst i et politisk miljø", "3. Jeg vælger Palæstina", "4. Et nyt liv begynder", "5. Pionerer og problemer", "6. 'Vi vil bekæmpe Hitler'", "7. Kampen mod englænderne", "8. Vi får vores stat", "9. Gesandt i Moskva", "10. Retten til at eksistere", "11. Afrikanske og andre venner", "12. Vi er alene", "13. Premierminister", "14. Yom Kippur-krigen", "15. Ved vejs ende".

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"15. Ved vejs ende" handler om at krigen og efterspillet har slidt på Golda Meir, så den 10 april 1974 træder hun tilbage som premierminister. Hun bliver i spidsen for et forretningsministerium til den 4 juni og får en troppeadskillelsesaftale med Syrien igennem og en krigsfangeudveksling. Næste premierminister bliver Yitzhak Rabin. Da Golda Meir kom til landet i 1921 var der 80.000 jøder der og i 1975 var det vokset til 3 millioner. Hun beskriver hvordan verden er hård, egoistisk og materialistisk og ufølsom for små nationers lidelser. Så hvis ikke Israel er stærkt, bliver der ingen fred.

Den 17 oktober 2023 rettede Hamas et angreb på Israel, hvor ca 1200 blev dræbt. I 2023, 2024 og nu 2025 har Israel rettet IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) eller Tzahal mod først Hamas i Gaza-striben, så alle i Gaza-striben og siden bombet løs i Libanon og Syrien uden hensyntagen til civilbefolkningen. De har ødelagt infrastruktur, boliger, hospitaler og skoler. Øjne for øje og tænder for tand.
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Autobiografia di Golda Meir, politica israeliana, quarto premier d'Israele (1969) e prima donna a guidare il governo del suo Paese, quarta a ricoprire tale posizione a livello internazionale. Diresse la politica israeliana in periodi particolarmente difficili, trovandosi ad affrontare varie crisi internazionali, come la crisi petrolifera successiva alla guerra del Kippur, i contrasti militari con Egitto e Siria e, soprattutto, il massacro di Monaco alle Olimpiadi del 1972.
Golda Meir è stata anche una figura di primo piano del movimento sionista, che si prefiggeva di creare uno stato israeliano nel territorio sotto il mandato britannico, area con cui il popolo ebraico ha forti e millenari legami storici e religiosi.

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Canonical title*
My life. The autobiography of Golda Meir
Original title
My life. The autobiography of Golda Meir
Original publication date
1973: A Land of Our Own; 1975: My Life
People/Characters
Golda Meir; David Ben-Gurion
Important places
Israel; Palestine
Important events*
Shoah
Dedication*
To my sisters, Sheyna and Clara, to our children, and to our children's children.
First words*
In a way, I suppose that the little I recall of my early childhood in Russia, my first eight years, sums up my beginnings, what now are called the formative years.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Let no one anywhere have any doubts about this: our children and our children's children will never settle for anything less.
Original language*
Inglese
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Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
956.94History & geographyHistory of AsiaMiddle East (Near East)The LevantIsrael and Palestine
LCC
DS126.6 .M42 .A37History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaAsiaHistory of AsiaIsrael (Palestine). The Jews

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