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This day in history, 50 years ago.
Golda Meir was once asked when she thought the Arab problem would be resolved. She said: ‘When the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.’
David Ben-Gurion used to call her the best man in his government.
David Ben-Gurion used to call her the best man in his government.
Golda Meir was born in Ukraine in 1898. Her family emigrated to the United States and she lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1906 to 1921 when she and her husband, Morris Myerson, left for Palestine where they lived in a kibbutz until the birth of Israel.
Golda Meir was 50 when she became one of the signatories of Israel’s Proclamation of Independence in Tel Aviv in 1948. She found herself close to tears remembering her schooldays when she had scanned the names of the men who signed the American Declaration of Independence.
Writing about Golda Meir also brought to mind this thread I wrote 14 months ago:
