GOLDA MEIR
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel
A Founder of the State of Israel
Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister
A Founder of the State of Israel
Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister
ON ‘WAR’
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". » Full Bio
THIS DAY IN HISTORY 40 YEARS AGO
COLD WAR - OCTOBER 6, 1973
COLD WAR - OCTOBER 6, 1973
The Yom Kippur War Brings United States
And USSR To Brink Of Conflict
And USSR To Brink Of Conflict
The surprise attack by Egyptian and Syrian forces on Israel in October 1973 throws the Middle East into turmoil and threatens to bring the United States and the Soviet Union into direct conflict for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Though actual combat did not break out between the two nations, the events surrounding the Yom Kippur War seriously damaged U.S.-Soviet relations and all but destroyed President Richard Nixon's much publicized policy of detente. » Full Article
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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