Golda Meir served in office as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. She was elected as Prime Minister on the 17th of March in 1969. Previously, she held offices as the Minister of Labor and as the Foreign Minister. She was often referred to as the “Iron Lady” of Israel. She resigned in 1974, the year the Yom Kippur war ended.
Women are not better than men, but they are also no worse. It is time to meet the challenge laid down decades ago by our one and only female leader.
As long as gender equality exists in this world, Women's History Month and International Women's Day must be at the top of the agenda in Israel.
As part of its collection marking fifty years since the Yom Kippur War, the National Archives of Israel has detailed the role of US Sec. of State Henry Kissinger in the Israel-Syria negotiations.
Biton served as an MK for the Communist party Hadash for 15 years, and then endorsed the Shas Party after retiring from political office.
Golda, the story of how Israel’s only female prime minister coped with the outbreak of the 1973 war, shared the prize with two other recent films that deal with issues connected to human rights.
Rabbi Jonathan Porath is well-known within his activist and conservative circles. For most of us, however, he is an unsung hero of the movement to liberate Soviet Jewry.
An open letter to US President Joe Biden.
The final Oscar nominations will be announced on January 23 and the awards will be presented in a star-studded ceremony on March 10.
Most books about Golda Meir in English project her as a celebrity, “the grandmother of the nation,” and gloss over the politics. This book has chosen another direction.
The event coincided with the minting of commemorative coins of Golda Meir, Israel's fourth prime minister.
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