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  Golda Meir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969 to April 11, 1974.
Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet was coined for Margaret Thatcher.
Golda Meir was one of twenty-four people (and one of two women) who signed the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
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 Golda Meir
Golda Meir was a Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1973 and played a central part in recent Middle East history.
Golda Meir was born in 1898 in Kiev (in what was then Russia under Nicholas II).
Meir was a socialist at heart and she spent much time as Prime Minister trying to stem the desire of some in her cabinet for Israel to adopt a more forceful policy towards those Arab nations that surrounded Israel.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /golda_meir.htm   (526 words)

  
 Meir, Golda (ne Mabovitch; 1898-1978)
Golda returned to Russia 50 years later as Israel's first minister to Moscow, and was received by thousands of Jews who came to the Moscow Great Synagogue to meet her.
Although Golda Meir quickly adjusted to the hard conditions of kibbutz life, she soon became involved in political and social activities that took her away from the kibbutz.
In the 1940s, Golda Meir was a major figure during the struggle and difficult negotiations with the British mandatory government.
www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/BIOS/golda.html   (508 words)

  
 Miriam's Cup: Biography of Golda Meir
Golda Meir was one of the founders of Israel and the most prominent woman politician of her era.
Golda Meir was born Goldie Mabovitz in Kiev, Ukraine in 1898.
Golda overcame many personal hardships because she was a woman: as a child she fought with her parents to continue her education and as a married woman she made a difficult choice between her family and her career.
www.miriamscup.com /MeirBiog.htm   (2170 words)

  
 Golda Meir - MSN Encarta
Golda Meir (1898-1978), Israeli premier (1969-74), a founder of the state of Israel.
Meir was born on May 3, 1898, in Kyiv, Russia (now Ukraine), and originally named Goldie Mabovitz or Mabovich.
She was a signer of the proclamation of the independence of the state of Israel in 1948 and served as her country's first minister to the USSR in 1948 and 1949; she was elected to the first Knesset, or parliament, of Israel and named minister of labor and social insurance in 1949.
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 Golda Meir
Golda, who was young and successful wanted to continue in school, but her father and mother wanted her to work to bring in money.
Golda worked for a short while at Sollel Boneh, but she was soon blessed with a child, Menachem and several years later with a daughter, Sarah.
Golda Meir later reflected on the Arab rejection of a dual state, "The Arabs do not make a decision on what is good for them, but rather, they decided based on what is bad for us." Here was the first of many times that they lost the opportunity to have their own Palestinian state.
www.jewishmag.com /49mag/goldameir/goldameir.htm   (3187 words)

  
 golda meir ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Golda Meir was born in Kiev in l898.
1 Golda Meir was born Golda Mabovitz in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1898.
Golda Mabovitch Meyerson, better known as Golda Meir, or simply Golda, was a founder of the modern state of Israel.
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 Lesson Plan - GOLDA MEIR
Golda was appointed to the executive committee of the General Federation of Jewish Labor in Palestine.
Golda was blamed for the lack of preparedness and resigned in 1974 at the age of seventy-six.
Golda Meir was a very passionate person and felt very strongly about the issue of the Jews having a homeland.
teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/goldmeir.html   (1988 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Golda Meir Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Golda Meir was the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969 to 1974.
Golda Meir (May 3, 1898 - December 8, 1978) was the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969 to 1974.
Golda Meir resigned leadership, to be succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin.
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 Golda Meir
Golda Meir School is one of Milwaukee's original magnet schools.
Yet, Golda Meir is not a school exclusively for the academically superior, as there are children within the school that possess a wide variety of gifts and talents.
The staff at Golda Meir seeks to create a stimulating environment where the potential of every student is challenged and rewarded.
www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us /meir   (143 words)

  
 Golda Meir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Golda Mabovitz; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was a founder of the State of Israel.
Golda Meir died in Jerusalem and was buried on Mount Herzl located in Jerusalem.
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 Golda Meir (1898-1978)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Meir never saw her gender as the explanation for her own or other women’s difficulties or challenges in life, nor as a basis upon which to organize and act politically.
Golda’s early years in America shaped her thinking and her career - not to mention her spoken Hebrew which was marked with English sounding pronunciations - and helped lay the groundwork for her rapid rise in Israeli politics.
Diagnosed with lymphoma, Golda Meir retired from government service in l966 but three years later, she, the ‘consensus candidate’, was persuaded by the Labor Party to appease factions and come out of retirement to serve as Prime Minister in l969 when her predecessor Levi Eshkol died.
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 Meir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meir Lublin (1558—1616), a Polish rabbi, Talmudist and Posek
Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843—1926), a rabbi and leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe
Golda Meir (1898—1978), a founder of the modern the State of Israel
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 Golda
Golda Mebovitz (Meir) was born on May 3, 1898, in Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine.
Golda Meyerson, later Meir, served as Secretary of the Workers' Council, and a member of the Secretariat of the Federation Workers' Council.
Following the Knesset elections, in which the 'Ma'arach' Party achieved great success, Golda Meir retired from the Government, but was asked to serve as party secretary, which she did for two years, and worked to unite the 'Ma'arach' Pary with the 'Rafi' Party.
www.pmo.gov.il /PMOEng/Government/Memorial/PrimeMinisters/Golda.htm   (599 words)

  
 Golda Meir Center
The Golda Meir House was designated a Denver landmark in 1995, and a total restoration was accomplished through private contributions and a grant from the Colorado Historical Fund.
The Center (a nonpartisan, educational project established in 1993) is connected to the historic Golda Meir House on the Auraria Campus near downtown Denver.
In early 1969, 70-year-old Golda Meir became the third woman in the 20 th Century to emerge as a leader of a nation.
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 Golda Meir
Golda Meir was born Golda Mabovitz in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1898.
Golda Mabovitz - who changed her name in 1956 to the Hebrew name Meir, which means "to burn brightly" -- became leader of the political department of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem.
Meir was the ______ woman in the world to serve as a prime minister.
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 Golda Meir
Golda Meir was born in Kiev in 1898.
David Ben-Gurion appointed Golda Meir to be a member of the Provisional Government.
As Foreign Minister, Meir was the architect of Israel's attempt to create bridges to the emerging independent countries of Africa via an assistance program based on practical Israeli experience in nation building.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/meir.html   (548 words)

  
 Golda Meir Becomes Prime Minister of Israel - February 26 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Golda was born Golda Mabovitz in Kiev, Russia in 1898.
Golda Meir was someone who believed deeply in the Zionist dream, and she devoted her entire life to the fulfillment of that dream — the development of the State of Israel.
Golda is regarded by many as one of the greatest female leaders in the history of modern mankind.
www.wzo.org.il /doingzionism/resources/view.asp?id=907   (1386 words)

  
 BBC News | PROFILES | Golda Meir
After the death of Levi Eshkol in 1969, Golda Meir was called out of retirement, at the age of 70, to become the new prime minister of Israel.
By the mid-1930s Golda Meir was heading the Histadrut's political department, and was active as an administrator in many spheres of public life.
In 1946, she was appointed head of the political department of the Jewish Agency - the body organising the migration of Jews to Palestine.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/israel_at_50/profiles/81288.stm   (569 words)

  
 WIC Biography - Golda Meir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Before Golda Meir became Prime Minister, she was the Foreign Minister for Israel from 1956 to 1965, During her time as Foreign Minister, she had the opportunity to work with the cooperative agricultural and urban planning programs between Israel and Africa.
Golda Meir was very proud of her international, as well as domestic work.
Always concerned with her people, Golda Meir, working with the Labor Movement, attended the Zionist Congress in Geneva in 1939, to help ensure protection of European Jews.
www.wic.org /bio/gmeir.htm   (385 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 1969: Israel elects first female leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Golda Meir, the "grand old woman of Israeli politics", is to become the first female prime minister of Israel.
Mrs Meir, who has come out of retirement to take up the role, pledged to maintain national unity and called on the people who worked with Mr Eshkol to "continue in the same framework" in her government.
Following her appointment Golda Meir won a convincing vote of confidence when she presented an identical cabinet to parliament to that of her predecessor.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/7/newsid_4205000/4205843.stm   (512 words)

  
 All About Jewish Theatre - Tovah Feldshuh in Golda's shoes
"Golda's Balcony" was such a critical and box office success last spring that its run was extended into July, and then the decision was made to transfer the show to a larger Broadway venue.
The focus of Feldshuh's research was the Golda Meir collection of correspondence, speeches, photographs, audio tapes, a single videotape and oral history interviews at the appropriately named Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
He wrote a large cast play, "Golda," which she saw before her death in 1978, but no one, including Meir, was satisfied with it.
www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=250   (1038 words)

  
 Biography of Golda Meir - Zionism and Israel - Biographies
Golda Meir (1898-1978) was fourth Prime Minister of Israel from 1969-1974 and served as Foreign minister from 1956-1966.
In June 1948 Golda Meir was appointed Israel's first ambassador to the Soviet Union, a position she filled for less than a year.
Golda Meir died in December 1978, at the age of 80.
www.zionism-israel.com /bio/golda_meir_biography.htm   (953 words)

  
 Golda Meir -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
There, Golda's father worked as a carpenter and her mother ran a grocery store, while Golda attended the Fourth Street School (now Golda Meir School) across from the Schlitz Brewing Complex.
When Golda was 14, her mother suggested that she give up school for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away.
Golda returned to Milwaukee at the urging of her father when she was 18.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Golda_Meir   (1904 words)

  
 Golda's Balcony - William Gibson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Golda, of course, is Golda Meir, Israel’s Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974.
Eighty year old Golda, sick with leukemia, plagued by phlebitis and arthritis, reflects on her life with the vigor of a young woman and the philosophical distance of an old woman.
Often criticized for being responsible for Israel’s being caught unprepared in the Yom Kippur war, Meir was none the less a formidable leader of her people and her cause; the means to an end are not always pretty and not always best summed up by a sound bite.
www.culturevulture.net /Theater8/GoldasBalcony.htm   (633 words)

  
 Amazon.com: My life: Books: Golda Meir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One warning: Golda Meir (as were many of the founders of Israel) was an ardent Socialist; this was definitely evident in her book, and was a bit hard for me to stomach at times.
My Life by Golda Meir is a compelling autobiography, which tells of the life of this amazing woman, from her early poverty-stricken childhood in Kiev, to her tenure as Prime Minister of Israel, from 1969 to 1974.
Meir also rejected the creation of a third Palestinian state between Iraq and the Mediterranean, but was prepared to countenance the ceding of parts of the West Bank to Jordan.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399116699?v=glance   (1468 words)

  
 Golda Meir's American Roots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Golda claimed that her memories of Ukraine were of grinding poverty, hunger and pogroms.
It was in Denver that Golda fell under the sway of socialism and Zionism and fell in love with Morris Meyerson, a sign painter who loved poetry, music and history but never shared her Zionist passion.
While now an Israeli, Golda’s early years in America shaped her thinking and her career —not to mention her spoken Hebrew --which was filled with English-sounding pronunciations—and helped lay the groundwork for her rapid rise in Israeli politics.
www.ajhs.org /publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=272   (882 words)

  
 Golda Meir
Israeli stateswoman Golda Meir was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1898.
In 1949, she was named Minister of Labor and, in 1956, Meir became the Minister of Foreign Affairs, retiring from this position nine years later.
Golda Meir played a crucial role in the strengthening of relations between America and Israel.
www.multied.com /Bio/people/Meir.html   (214 words)

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