Thursday, September 22, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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All Israel Hails
Golda Myers'on
By PAUL KRESH
HE CAR SPEEDING along the
highway from Jerusalem to
Tel Aviv screamed to a dead
stop as splinters of glass from the
wrecked window splattered to the
road. The single bullet that had
penetrated the window had done
the damage, but none of the per-
sons inside had been killed.
A few inches further forward,
and an Arab sniper would have
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been a hero for taking the life of
perhaps the most important wom-
an in Israel—Mrs. Golda Myer-
son, at that time Israeli adminis-
trator of the Jewish section of
Jerusalem and only woman mem-
ber of the provisional council of
government.
Mrs. MyerSon's associates plead-
ed with her to give up her fre ,
quent journeys between the be-
leagured cities but, characteristic-
ally, she refused. She continued
to travel the length and breadth
of Palestine, conferring on mat-
ters concerning the new Jewish
state and pausing frequently to
bring comforting messages to
mothers whose sons or daughters
were fighting with the Haganah.
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DAUGHTER AT FRONT
MRS. MYERSON could know
how they felt: her own 17-year-
old daughter was on duty in an
isolated settlement near the
Egyptian border. Bitter fighting
had been going on, and there had
been no word from Sarah for
many weeks.
As for Mrs. Myerson's son,
•Menahein, he too was going to
fight for Israel. He was giving up
his musical studies in New York
to return home and join the ranks
of the Israeli army. Worries
enough for a mother of two chil-
dren! But Mrs. Myerson had
many more.
It is easy to picture Mrs. Myer-
son in the role of mother—gentle
dark eyes, kindly face, no make-
up, hair parted in the center and
drawn back in conservative fash-
ion.
It is more difficult to envision
her as a political leader. Yet this
gentle-seeming woman gave up
her post as a Milwaukee school
teacher in 1921 to start life over
in a Palestinian agricultural set-
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GOLDA MYERSON
tlement, to rise to positions of
importance in the Labor Zionist
movement, and later to be a dip-
lomat of international renown.
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EARLIER THIS YEAR, Mrs.
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Myerson relinquished her post as
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the first Israeli envoy to the
Soviet Union to become the min-
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ister of labor and reconstruction
in the Israeli government, top
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In the first chapters of Israel's
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history as a new democracy the
deeds and words of Golda Myer-
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son are inextricably woven. It
was she who declared when tes-
tifying in a British military court
in.liaifa on behalf of two Pales-
tine Jews on trial of "illegal pos-
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session of arms," that "every Jew
in Palestine is a member of the
Haganah," which was the un-
official army.
She participated, too, in the
fast of Jewish Agency executives
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when the British forbade a refu-
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suggested this Ghandi-like meas-
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ure to the 11 members of the Jew-
ish Agency executive.
The leaders broke their fast
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consumed fragments of Matzo
and drank tea. Their fast had its
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hours, allowed the ship to sail for
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the Holy Land.
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FROM .. .
IN U. S. SETTLEMENT
MRS. MYERSON was brought
to the United States at the age of
seven. When she was graduated
from high school in Milwaukee
she was class valedictorian.
Later, as a teacher in the Mil-
waukee schools, she won the
hearts of youngsters. But a new
concern was capturing the young
schoolteacher's imagination: La-
bor Zionism.
After working with various
Labor Zionist groups in the
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her husband embarked for Pales-
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first agricultural cooperatives,
which American volunteers had
founded.
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Mrs. Myerson's stories of her
life in those days hint at the
from
trials she must have experienced.
"The first dish for dinner every
night," she relates, "was quinine."
The settlers were in constant
danger of malaria.
The young ex-schoolteacher,
who had never before lived on a
farm, found herself raising poul-
try. Mrs. Myerson as poultry-
raiser is a chapter in her life
which didn't last long. Three
years later she was summoned to
the Histadrut offices in Tel Aviv,
to work in the building of a new
cooperative. Since then she has
served on the Women's Council.
She has been a director of His-
tadrut's aviation firm. She has
served as the only woman mem-
ber of its five-member secretariat
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