MEM- KM LWISIINIEWS Golda Meir Israel's Founding Mother By DAVID SCHWARTZ President as her husband. some $50 million. The _fact that she had When America, after the Americans speak of the ratification of the Declara- lived in America no "founding fathers" but not tion of Independence, doubt is important in her of the founding mothers. Is- needed money for arms, story. She was an Israeli rael is the first land with a John Adams was sent but she was also an "founding mother" — Golda abroad to get some, but Mrs. American. She wrote in Meir. Adams was not sent. her autobiography that There were many able When Israel, after her when President Truman women in America at the declaration of indepen- recognized the state of Is- time of the struggle for in- dence, also faced an empty rael, while all Israel re- dependence. If you read the treasury, GOlda Meir was joiced, she felt that her letters of Abigail Adams, sent to America to get it. To joy was greater„ because wife of John Adams, you be sure, Ben-Gurion first of her American back- may conclude that she could proposed to go himself but ground. have been as able a Golda Meir vetoed the idea. Golda was not the first ■ "Ben-Gurion," she said, woman'. in America to raise FIRESTONE "you are needed in Israel. I the Zionist banner. Back in JEWELRY- will go to America." She earlier days — before the ; Wholesale Diamonds & Jewelry went — not even taking Civil War — the poetess and Remounting Jewelry & Watch Repairing SUITE 318 ADVANCE BLDG time off to change her actress Ada Isaac Menken 23077 Greenfield at 9 Mile ,clothes- for the trip — and wrote beautiful poems cal- 1313 557.1860 she came back to Israel with ling on Jews to re-establish their ancient state. Later Emma Lazarus, one of whose poems is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty wel- coming the immigrants to America, also turned Zionist, and wrote a poem calling for a rebirth of the Priced Sale of Household Contents Maccabean spirit and the rebirth of Jewish nation- hood. Conducted In Your Home Neither Ada Menken nor Emma Lazarus had felt any of persecution's fangs di- Estates Liquidated rectly. Ada Menken was one of the most popular actres- ses of her day — alas, she was to die very young — and Miss Lazarus knew little of Jewishness and did not suf- Liquidators and Appraisers fer on account of it. But the 368-4044 tragedy of the Jews was too .875-7650 universal not to be per- ceived. Even a non-Jewess, the British woman author, George Eliot, in "Daniel De- ronda," had anticipated Theodor Herzl in calling for the re-establishment of the Jewish state. Golda Meir knew of the Jewish tragedy more di- rectly. As a little child in Russia, she had seen her carpenter father climb a ladder to nail a board against the door to protect • the home from a scheduled pogrom. The next day the hooligans would be visiting the Jewish homes to rob and kill. When the family moved to Milwaukee, she could not forget this. She enlisted in the Zionist struggle. The land of Israel that she came to was then no land of milk and honey. Zionism offered no soft berths. Nothing, but hard ■ Reserveyour fully equipped, brand new '79 Chevy work: now. Roger Peck has the car you want at the lowest Frances Perkins, the rental price... We beat 'em'all. Free pick-up and first American woman to have a post in a delivery at the Fort Lauderdale Airport and free peesidential cabinet, shuttle service to Port Everglades. We guarantee once laughingly said that your car will be waiting when you deplane. Call us the only time her sex had direct... 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