Golda Meir (Hebrew: גּוֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר or ; Arabic: جولدا مائير, Julda Ma'air; earlier Golda Meyerson, born Golda Mabovich, Голда Мабович; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.
Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold such an office, she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir "the best man in the government"; she was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people".
In 1974, after the end of the Yom Kippur War, Meir resigned as prime minister. She died in 1978 of leukemia.
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Famous quotes by golda meir:
“Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one’s likely to do anything about that.”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)
“...I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)
“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)
“America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it’s tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn’t solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it’s still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)
“...I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is this?”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)