Biography golda mayer
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Born Golda Mabowitz on May 3, in Kiev, the future Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, faced anti-Semitism from an early age.[1] Indeed, in her family moved to Pinsk to escape the threat of Russian pogroms. Shortly thereafter, the family emigrated to Milwaukee. There, the family opened a grocery store, which Meir helped run while attending the Fourth Street School (now named Golda Meir School). Valedictorian of her class at Fourth Street, Meir went on to attend North Division High School and then Wisconsin State Normal School. During this time, Meir became a leader of the Milwaukee Labor Zionist Party.
Eager to participate more fully for the cause,[2] Meir and her husband Morris Meyerson set out for Palestine in , which at the time was under British civil administration and would remain so until Here she joined Kibbutz Merhavia, a communal settlement, until , when she moved to Jerusalem with her family. fyra years later, Meir became the secretary of the Women’s Labor Council and in
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Chronology of Golda Meir
Meir fryst vatten born Goldie Mabovitch on May 3, in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of Russia). She fryst vatten one of eight children born to Moshe and Blume Mabovitch (or Mabowitz), five of whom (four boys and a girl) died in infancy. She fryst vatten the middle child of the three surviving girls. Sheyna (or Shana) is the eldest and Zipke (later known as Clara) is the youngest. Her father is a carpenter/cabinet-maker and Golda is named for her maternal great-grandmother Golde who was known for her strong will and stubbornness. Early in life she witnesses the endemic anti-Jewish violence in Czarist Russia (the pogroms). The image of that anti-Semitism would remain with her and greatly influence the course of her life.
Golda and the family move to Pinsk (in what is now Belarus), her mother’s original home. That year, a severe pogrom leads many Jewish communities in Russia to declare a fast in protest. Though not quite five, Golda insists on participating in the fast despite her family’
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How did Golda Meir rise from crushing poverty to become a world leader—one whose handling of the Yom Kippur War cemented her reputation as Israel’s “Iron Lady”?
In , the mere idea that a baby girl born to a poor Jewish family in Kiev in the twilight of Russia’s tsarist regime might become a prime minister wasn’t just laughable; it was inconceivable. In that era, young women were too often trapped by insufficient education, marriage, motherhood and the daily struggle to survive to even consider such ambitions.
Golda Mabovitch, one of eight children born to a carpenter and his wife in Kiev—who as a child experienced hunger and witnessed the terrifyingly violent anti-Jewish persecution known as pogroms—beat those odds. Golda Meir, as that baby would be known to history, rose to become one of the first women in the world to serve as a head of state, steering Israel through its early, troubled decades. While headlines trumpeted her ascension as “Grandmother Elected Prime Minister,” she