biography
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Meir, Golda
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originally Goldie Myerson, née Mabovitch
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pronunciation:
[mayeer]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1898–1978)
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| biography:
| Israeli stateswoman and prime minister (1969–74), born in Kiev, Ukraine. Brought up in Milwaukee, WI, from 1906, she became a teacher and an active Zionist, After her marriage to Morris Myerson (1917), she emigrated to a kibbutz in Palestine in 1921, and became a leading figure in the Labour movement. She was Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Union (1948–9), minister of labour (1949–56), then Hebraized her name when appointed foreign minister (1956–66). As prime minister of a coalition government, her plans to maintain a ‘security frontier’ along the Jordan river were halted by the fourth Arab–Israeli War (1973), and she was forced to resign as a result of Israeli losses incurred. |
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