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Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in czarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israels founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become 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 America in 1948, secretly meeting in Amman with King Abdullah right before Israels declaration of independence, mobbed by thousands of Jews in a Moscow synagogue in 1948 as Israels first representative to the USSR, serving as minister of labor and foreign minister in 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, agonized over the mixed signals being sent by newly installed Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, and had dozens of clandestine meetings with Jordans King Hussein in the unsuccessful pursuit of a land-for-peace agreement with Israels neighbors. But her time in office ended in tragedy, when Israel was caught off guard by Egypt and Syrias surprise attack on Yom Kippur in 1973. Resigning in the wars aftermath, Golda spent her final years keeping a hand in national affairs and bemusedly enjoying international acclaim. Francine Klagsbruns superbly researched and masterly recounted story of Israels founding mother gives us a Golda for the ages.
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Copyright 2017 by Francine Klagsbrun
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schocken Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
Schocken Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
A portion of this book originally appeared in different form in Hadassah magazine (September/October 2017).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Name: Klagsbrun, Francine, author.
Title: Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel / Francine Klagsbrun.
Description: New York : Schocken Books [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017004908 (print). LCCN 2017006101 (ebook). ISBN 9780805242379 (hardcover). ISBN 9780805243505 (ebook).
Subjects: LCSH: Meir, Golda, 18981978. Women prime ministersIsraelBiography.
Classification: LCC DS126.6.M42 K53 2017 (print). LCC DS126.6.M42 (ebook). DDC 956.9405/3092 [B]dc23
LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2017004908
Ebook ISBN9780805243505
www.schocken.com
Cover photograph of Golda Meir by Kahana/Camera Press/Redux
Cover design by Janet Hansen
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What a lioness was your mother
Among the lions!
Crouching among the great beasts,
She reared her cubs.
Ezekiel 19:2
For Sarah and Eric,
Eliana, Benji, and Ari.
And for Sam.
ABDULLAH BIN HUSSEIN. First king of Jordan, 19461951.
YIGAL ALLON. Israeli general during the 1948 Israeli-Arab War; held a variety of ministerial positions during the 1960s and 1970s, including deputy prime minister and minister of education and culture in Goldas government; architect of the Allon Plan for territories captured during the 1967 Six-Day War.
SHULAMIT ALONI. Feminist and civil rights advocate; member of the Knesset and founder of the Ratz Party; held a variety of ministerial positions in the 1990s.
MEIR AMIT. Director of the Mossad, 19631968.
YASSER ARAFAT. Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, 19692004; leader of the Fatah political party.
ZALMAN ARANNE. Labor leader; minister of education and culture, 19551960, 19631969; close colleague of Goldas.
MOTTI ASHKENAZI. A captain in the Israel Defense Forces who led a protest movement against Goldas government after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
HAFEZ AL-ASSAD. President of Syria, 19712000.
SHAUL AVIGUR. Commander of Mossad lAliyah Bet, which smuggled Jews into mandatory Palestine; a founder and head of Nativ, an underground organization that maintained contact with Soviet Jews.
MENACHEM BEGIN. Leader of the right-wing political parties Herut, Gahal, and Likud; Israels sixth prime minister, 19771983.
DAVID BEN-GURION. Chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish Agency in pre-state Israel; first prime minister of Israel, 19481954 and 19551963; considered its founding father.
RACHEL YANAIT BEN-ZVI. Zionist leader in pre-state Israel and together with her husband, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Israels second president, 19521963), an important early influence on young Golda.
ERNEST BEVIN. British Labour Party leader; foreign secretary during the last days of the British mandate in Palestine.
WILLY BRANDT. Chancellor of West Germany, 19691974.
HANNA CHIZICK. Pioneer and agricultural laborer in pre-state Israel; member of the kibbutz Merhavia; wife of Meir Dubinsky.
SIR ALAN CUNNINGHAM. The last British high commissioner in mandatory Palestine, 19451948.
MOSHE DAYAN. Charismatic Israeli general; minister of defense in the governments of Levi Eshkol (during the Six-Day War) and Golda Meir (during the Yom Kippur War).
SIMCHA DINITZ. Close aide to Golda; director general of the prime ministers office, 19691973; ambassador to the United States, 19731979.
MEIR DUBINSKY. Member of the Milwaukee Poalei Zion; ardent early suitor of Goldas.
ABBA EBAN. Diplomat and Israeli spokesman; Israels first ambassador to the United States and the United Nations; minister of foreign affairs, 19661974.
ILYA EHRENBURG. Soviet Jewish journalist.
ADOLF EICHMANN. Nazi war criminal captured by Israel in 1960; executed following trial in 1962.
DAVID DADO ELAZAR. Chief of general staff of the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War; forced to resign in its aftermath.
ARIE LOVA ELIAV. Secretary-general of Israels Labor Party; proponent of Palestinian nationalism.
LEVI ESHKOL. Third prime minister of Israel, 19631969.
ISRAEL GALILI. Chief of staff in the pre-state Haganah; minister without portfolio in Goldas government and one of her closest advisers.
LEONARD GARMENT. American attorney who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations; liaison between the government and the American Jewish community during the 1970s.
MORDECHAI GAZIT. Director general of the prime ministers office during Goldas premiership.
NAHUM GOLDMANN. President of the World Jewish Congress, 19481977.
ELIYAHU GOLOMB. Leading statesman in pre-state Israel; a founder of the Haganah and commander in it.
REGINA HAMBURGER-MEDZINI. Goldas best childhood friend; immigrated to mandatory Palestine with her and maintained lifelong ties.
DAG HAMMARSKJLD. United Nations secretary-general, 19531961.
ISSER HAREL. Director of Mossad, 19521963; replaced by Meir Amit.
HUSSEIN BIN TALAL. King of Jordan, 19531999.
VLADIMIR ZEEV JABOTINSKY. Right-wing Zionist leader and theoretician; founder of the Revisionist Party in 1925.
LOU KADAR. Goldas assistant, secretary, and confidante for almost thirty years.
BERL KATZNELSON. Visionary and moral authority in pre-state Israel.
HENRY KISSINGER. U.S. national security adviser and secretary of state during the Nixon and Ford administrations.
ABRAHAM ISAAC KOOK. First Ashkenazi chief rabbi of mandatory Palestine and influential religious thinker.
ZVI YEHUDAH KOOK. Son of Abraham Isaac Kook and the spiritual force behind the Gush Emunim settler movement.
YOSSEL KOPILOV. Philosopher-barber, close friend in Goldas youth, immigrated to mandatory Palestine with her and remained a family friend until his death.
SHEYNA MABOVITCH KORNGOLD. Goldas older sister (18891972).
BRUNO KREISKY. Chancellor of Austria, 19701983.
PINHAS LAVON. Served in several ministerial positions in the 1950s; as minister of defense was accused of running a failed covert operation in Egypt that became known as the Lavon Affair.
BLUMA NAIDITCH MABOVITCH. Goldas mother (18671951).
MOSHE YITZHAK MABOVITCH. Goldas father (18641944).
ADA MAIMON-FISHMAN. Politician, feminist leader in pre-state Israel; head of Women Workers Council; director of Girls Training Farm at Ayanot.
AYA PINKERFELD MEYERSON (MEIR). Menahems second wife; mother of Amnon, Daniel, and Gideon.
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