![]() The Mabovitch family had fled their home in part to escape the pogroms being carried out against Jews in Russia at the time. She moved with her family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1906. Golda Meir was born the daughter of Moshe and Bluma Mabovitch in Kiev, Ukraine, on May 3, 1898. Meir was a leading figure in the movement called Zionism, the movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine, the area the Jews regard as their historical home. By the end of her life, she had become a hero as one of the first women to head a nation in the modern era. Golda Meir served as Israel’s foreign minister from 1956 to 1966 and became its fourth prime minister in 1969. Her uncompromising devotion to shaping the Jewish homeland transformed the Middle East and its politics.ĭied 8 December 1978 in Jerusalem, Israel Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the western world. She was the architect of Israel’s socialist infrastructure and one of its most tenacious international defenders. ![]()
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