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Golda Meir

Golda Meir was Israel's prime minister from 1969 to 1974 and the first woman to hold the post.

1898 to 1978First woman prime minister of IsraelSigning the Declaration of IndependencePrime minister during Yom Kippur War

Born: 3 May 1898, Kyiv
Died: 8 December 1978, West Jerusalem
Occupation: teacher, politician, librarian
Party: Mapai, Alignment, Israeli Labor Party
Education: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, North Division High School, Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee

Golda Meir was born in 1898 in Kyiv

Golda Mabovitch was born in Kyiv in 1898 to a poor Jewish family. Her father was a carpenter. In 1906 the family moved to Milwaukee in the United States, where her mother ran a grocery store.

She finished high school in Milwaukee in 1915 and studied at a teachers college. She taught at a Yiddish school and joined the Labor Zionist movement. In 1917 she married Morris Meyerson.

In 1921 the couple moved to Mandatory Palestine and joined kibbutz Merhavia. She became secretary of the Working Women's Council in 1928 and joined the Histadrut executive committee in 1934. She signed the Declaration of Independence in 1948.

She entered the Knesset in 1949 and served as Labor Minister until 1956, then as Foreign Minister until 1966. After the death of Levi Eshkol she became prime minister in 1969. The 1973 Yom Kippur War led to the Agranat Commission and to public unrest.

She resigned and was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. She received the Israel Prize in 1975. She died in 1978 and was buried on Mount Herzl.