GoldaMeir

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//By Alyssa G, Halima B, and Lisa V//

Accomplishments
Golda Meir had many accomplishments even from the start of her childhood. No matter where she was or what the conditions were she succeeded in leading and helping others. It was clear from the beginning she was born to be a leader. This is an overview of her lifelong accomplishments. She attended the Fourth Street School and organized a fundraiser to buy textbooks for her classmates. While raising the money she formed the American Young Sisters Society. She became valedictorian of her class even though she did not speak English well. In 1928, Golda was elected

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secretary of Moetzet HaPoalot (Working Women's Council). She then joined the Executive Committee of the Histadrut and moved up the ranks to become head of its Political Department. She became the principal negotiator between the Jews in Palestine and the British Mandatory authorities. Meir was one of twenty-four signatories (two of them women) of the Israeli declaration of independence on May 14, 1948. She was appointed Israel's first ambassador to the Soviet Union. In 1949, Meir was elected to the Knesset as a member of Mapai and served continuously until 1974. In 1956, she became Foreign Minister under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. After Levi Eshkol's sudden death on February 26, 1969, the party elected Meir as his successor. In August 1970, Meir accepted a U.S. peace initiative that called for an end to the War of Attrition. In 1975, Meir was awarded the Israel Prize for her special contribution to the State of Israel.

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Quotes
//"Let me tell you something the we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!//" 1973 //"Whether women are better leaders than men I cannot say. But I can certainly say they are no worse."

"The Muslims can fight and lose, then come back and fight again. But Israel can only lose once."//

//"There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palesti////n////e considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." (////Sunday// //Times, June 15, 1969)//

//"The Arabs will stop fighting us when they love their children more than they hate Jews."//

Timeline
1898-Golda Mabovitch is born in Kiev, Russia. (Ukraine had not yet declared it independence and was still part of Russia.) 1906-Golda immigrates with her family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is eight years old. 1912-She leaves home and moves in with her older sister in Denver. She later returns to Milwaukee to finish school. 1917-Golda graduates from high school Milwaukee as an active Zionist, and marries Morris Myerson. 1921-Golda and Morris move to Palestine with the mission to build a Jewish homeland. They live on Kibbutz Merhavia. 1924- She moves to Tel-Aviv, the capitol of Israel. The same year, her son Menachem is born. 1926-Her daughter Sarah is born in Tel-Aviv. 1945-Golda moves to Jerusalem without her husband. Although they separate, they are never divorced. 1948-Golda is one of two women to sign the Israeli Declaration of Independence. The next day, five different countries attack Israel. Golda goes to America to raise money for the Israeli army. 1948-Golda becomes ambassador to the Soviet Union. 1949-She is elected Minister of Labor by Jewish government. 1951-Golda’s husband, Morris dies at home. 1956-Golda becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs and changes her last name at the suggestion of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, to Meir, a Hebrew name. 1969-Golda becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Israel, replacing Levi Eshkol. She is the first female Prime Minister of Israel. Golda is just the third woman in the world to hold this position, after Indira Ghandi in India and Siramavo Bandaranaike in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). 1974-Golda resigns as Prime Minister and is succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. 1978-Golda dies of lymphoma at the age of eighty.

Works Cited http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/golda_meir.htm http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/goldameir105184.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir