Because much rewriting of history is destroying the truth.
Golda Meir
4th Prime Minister of Israel
(17 March 1969 – 3 June 1974)
(17 March 1969 – 3 June 1974)
Quote Background
Article excerpt from Vogue (July 1969)
Biography
GOLDA MEIR, born Golda Mabovitz (3 May 1898 — December 1978) was an Israeli politician and one of the founders of the State of Israel. She served as Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel’s first and the world’s third woman to hold such an office, she was described as the “Iron Lady” of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir “the best man in the government”; she was often portrayed as the “strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people”
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