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Golda Meir

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Fourth Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974), one of the founders of the state. Born in Kiev and raised in Milwaukee, she embodied Labor Zionism. Her leadership during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and her pragmatic diplomacy left their mark on the history of Israel.

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Sources & resources

« Meir (Myerson, Née Mabovitch), Golda », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
P. Mann, Golda: The Life of Israel's Prime Minister (1971)
I. Noble, Israel's Golda Meir: Pioneer to Prime Minister (1972)
E. Agres, Golda Meir: Portrait of a Prime Minister (1970)
M. Syrkin, Golda Meir: Woman with a Cause (1969)
B. Litvinoff, Her Years of Valour: The Span of Golda Meir's Career (1974)
M. Davidson, The Golda Meir Story (1976)
A. Dobrin, A Life For Israel: The Story of Golda Meir (1974)
R. Slater, The Uncrowned Queen of Israel (1981)
M. Meir, My Mother Golda Meir: A Son's Evocation of Life with Golda Meir (1983)
D.A. Adler, Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir (1984)
M. Keller, Golda Meir (1983)
M. Avallone, A Woman (1982)
M. Medzini, Ha-Yehudiyya ha-Ge'ah: Golda Meir ve-?azon Yisrael (1990)
R. Amdur, Golda Meir: A Leader in Peace and War (1990)
R. Martin, Golda Meir: The Romantic Years (1988)
M. Avizohar et al., Golda (1994)