Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

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The definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel
   
Golda Meir was once a world figure unlike some other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to The united states in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would sooner or later catapult her into the inner circles of Israel’s founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was once hired at a public works administrative center by the man who would change into the great love of her life. A series of public service jobs brought her to the attention of David Ben-Gurion, and her political career took off. Fund-raising in The united states in 1948, secretly meeting in Amman with King Abdullah right before Israel’s declaration of independence, mobbed by thousands of Jews in a Moscow synagogue in 1948 as Israel’s first representative to the us, serving as minister of labor and foreign minister within the 1950s and 1960s, Golda brought fiery oratory, plainspoken appeals, and shrewd deal-making to the cause to which she had dedicated her life—the welfare and security of the State of Israel and its inhabitants.
     As prime minister, Golda negotiated arms agreements with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and had dozens of clandestine meetings with Jordan’s King Hussein within the unsuccessful pursuit of a land-for-peace agreement with Israel’s neighbors. But her time in administrative center ended in tragedy, when Israel was once caught off guard by Egypt and Syria’s surprise attack on Yom Kippur in 1973. Analyzing newly to be had documents from Israeli government archives, Francine Klagsbrun looks into whether Golda could have prevented that war and whether in its darkest days she contemplated the use of nuclear force. Resigning within the war’s aftermath, she spent her final years keeping a hand in national affairs and bemusedly enjoying international acclaim. Klagsbrun’s superbly researched and masterly recounted story of Israel’s founding mother gives us a Golda for the ages.

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