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SUNDAY 11-2
Israel's Golda Fondly Recalled
By SIMON GRIVER
World Zionist
Press Service
It is two years since the
death of Golda Meir. Her
story is one of remarkable
achievement and unusual
devotion to the building of
the state of Israel. It is also a
story that encompasses the
tragedies and triumphs of
20th Century Jewry.
She was barn in Kiev in
1898. Goldie Mabovitch, the
daughter of a carpenter,
soon learned the cruel
reality of being a Jew in
czarist Russia. "I didn't
know then of course what a
pogrom was," she recalls in
her autobiography "My
Life," "but I knew it had
something to do with the
rabble that used to surge
through town, brandishing
knives with sticks, scream-
ing Christ-killers."
When she was 8 the fam-
ily emigrated to Mil-
waukee. The reason behind
the move was that her older
sister Sheyna, a fervent
Zionist who wore black for
two years after Herzl's
death, was being closely
scrutinized by the police.
Dozens of Golda's uncles,
aunts and cousins remained
behind in Russia and all
perished in the death camps
during the Nazi occupation.
In Milwaukee, the fam-
ily struggled to make
ends meet, but were able
to relax in the atmos-
phere of freedom and
tolerance. At 16, Golda
asserted her indepen-
dence from her parents
by moving to Denver
where she stayed with
her sister Sheyna and her
husband Shamai. It was
here that she fell. in love
with Morris Meyerson,
whom she later married,
but not before she re-
turned to Milwaukee to
study to become a
teacher.
By now she was already
active in the Labor Zionist
movement and faced a dif-
ficult dilemma, torn be-
tween the comforts of
American life and the
dream of building a Jewish
state. She was never one for
soft options and in 1920 she
set sail for Palestine on the
"Pocahontas," along with
Morris, Sheyna, Shamai
and other friends.
She took with her to Eretz
Yisrael an appreciation of
Ainerica's democratic val-
ues and later, as one of the
architects of the Jewish
state, took pains to put
these principles into prac-
tice.
It was a disappointment
to find out that the land of
her dreams was a humid,
underdeveloped wilderness,
but she remained un-
daunted. They moved to
Merhavia, a kibutz in the
valley of Jezreeel, where
Golda became renowned
throughout the region for
introducing such bourgeois
luxuries as tablecloths.
These decadent in-
dulgences were tolerated
by her fellow kibutzniks
who believed in her and
sent her to national con-
ferences as their repre-
sentative. But the
GOLDA MEIR
backbreaking work af-
fected Morris' health and
they were forced to re-
turn to city life. There
then followed spells in
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
where- Morris worked in
the offices of the con-
struction company of the
Trade Union Movement
while Golda busied her-
self in her lesser known
role as housewife bring-
ing up their two children
Sarah and Menahem.
Throughout these times
of the British Mand-ate she
took increasing respon-
sibilities in the Labor
movement and served on its
decision-making- council.
She made several tours of
America and raised mil-
lions of dollars. On the eve
of Israel's independence she
risked her life by travelling
disguised in a black veil as
an Arab woman to Amman,
in one last attempt to get
Jordan's King Abdulla not
to go to war with Israel. The
mission failed but it was
this kind of resolution that
characterizes Golda's per-
sonal and political be-
havior.
Golda became ambas-
sador to Moscow, a sensitive
post that she did not relish,
but filled admirably, becom-
ing a focus for expressions of
identification with-Israel by
Soviet Jews. She returned
in 1949 to an even greater
challenge as Minister of
Labor and Housing when
Israel was absorbing hun-
dreds of thousands of refu-
gees.
But the amazing was ac-
complished in no short
measure through Golda's
endeavors. She- moved in
the mid-50s to the Foreign
Ministry, where in over a
decade she built up -close
ties with numerous African,
Asian and Latin American
countries and was for the
first time able to get
America to solidly back Is-
rael's cause.
In 1965, she retired
from politics, not even
tempted by the offer of
deputy prime minister.
She wanted to enjoy a re-
laxing private life. Her
husband had died in 1951
but she had a large and
close-knit family. "My
five grandchildren are
my greatest joy in life,"
Friday, November 28, 1980 35
BURGLAR ALARMS
she wrote.
However, personal in-
dulgences had to be sac-
rificed. Reluctantly she re-
turned to help heal spirits in
the Labor Party. After Levi
Eshkol's death in 1969, Mrs.
Meir was pressed into be-
coming prime minister as
the only person capable of
doing the job in the post
Six-Day War era.
Only the third ever
woman premier in the
world, she led the country
in a period culminating in
the trauma of the Yom Kip-
pur War. She retired in
1974 after seeing the coun-
try through the precarious
aftermath of the Yom Kip-
pur War, handing over the
reins to younger leadership.
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