Golda Meir, known as Golda Meyerson from 1917–56) was the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel.Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on 17 March 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel's first and the world's third female 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, gray-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people".
Prime minister of Israel (1969-1974).
Ambassador to USSR (1948 - 1949) Minister of Labour & Social Affairs (1949 - 1956) Minister of Foreign Affairs (1956 - 1966)
First Woman Ambassador, Minister & Prime Minister of Israel. As Prime Minister she led Israel through two wars.
Member of Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, for 8 consecutive times (1949 - 1974)
One of only 2 women to sign the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel.
A graduate of Milwaukee State Normal School (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.)
Has the distinction of being the only Israeli Prime Minister to have formerly held American Citizenship.
Was issued Israels first passport.
While serving under Israeli Foreign Minister in 1956, PM David Ben-Gurion suggested she adopt a Hebrew surname. She chose Meir, which means "to burn brightly."
Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!,One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. . . . Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
I must govern the clock not be governed by it.
I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. . . . Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Being seventy is not a sin.
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. .
