Golda Meir Born: Israel's Iron Lady Enters the World
She was born in Kiev, grew up in Milwaukee, worked as a teacher and labor organizer, and ended up as Prime Minister of Israel. Golda Meir was 70 when she took office in 1969. She served during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack and Israel nearly collapsed. She resigned in 1974 taking responsibility for the intelligence failures. She was born in 1898 and lived long enough to see Israel survive wars she'd helped start or manage. She died in 1978.
May 3, 1898
128 years ago
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