“A leader who does not hesitate before sending his nation into battle is not cut out to be a leader.” It is one of Golda Meir's most famous phrases, remembered among other things for her rhetorical skills and her work in the diplomatic field.
Golda Meir She was the first woman to serve as Prime Minister in Israel, and the third in the world.
But long before that, Meir was born in kyiv, Ukraine on May 3, 1898. In 1906 he moved to Wisconsin, United States, with his family. It was there where she completed her studies and where she met her future husband, Morris Myerson.
Her political career began as a civil servant in the Histadrut, the General Federation of Land Workers of Israel created in 1920 in Haifa, and continued as a delegate of the Labor Party.
In June 1948, another milestone in her career occurred: she was appointed the first Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Union, a position she had to abandon a year later to form the first Knesset after the elections in 1949.
When Prime Minister Levi Eshkol died in 1969, Golda Meir's name was the first to appear on the list of possible successors. She was called the “consensus candidate.”
In her first speech as president, she expressed before the Israeli parliament her willingness to dialogue for peace with the neighboring territories of the Middle East. However, during her term she had to face the surprise Syrian-Egyptian attack that began the Yom Kippur War.
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