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ten today. Yet he was the first Israeli
prime minister to visit the United
States, and was in power when West
Germany established diplomatic rela-
tions with Israel. He was popular, too:
when Ben-Gurion, dissatisfied with his
hand-picked successor, decided to run
again in 1965, Eshkol won a solid
majority in the Knesset and turned
back the challenge.
Eshkol was prime minister during
the Six-Day War, watching his coun-
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GOLDA MEIR
try's armed forces wipe out the
Egyptian and Jordanian air forces,
take the Sinai peninsula and the
Golan Heights, and reclaim the Old
City of Jerusalem — altogether, one
of the most astonishing military vic-
tories of modern times. In the war's
aftermath, Eshkol worked towards
consolidation of Israel's labor move-
ment, leading to the formation of
the Labor Party. He died of a heart
attack in February 1969.
(1898-1978)
The look: Your bubbe, who knows
everything though you tell her noth-
ing.
The life: Born Golda Mabovitch in
Kiev, Meir moved to the United States
with her family when she was 8. She
met her future husband, Morris Myer-
son, after running away to live with
her sister in Denver. As she became
more involved with Zionism, she
pressed him to move to Israel. The
couple finally made the trip in 1921.
She was a Zionist negotiator with the
British in the days before indepen-
dence, and became minister to the
Soviet Union after the new country
was formed. In succession, she served
as minister of labor, foreign minister,
and secretary general of her party.
The career: In 1969, upon the death
of mentor Levi Eshkol, the 70-year-
old Meir became
prime minister
and cemented her
position with
that year's elec-
tions. Firm but
dovish, the 1973
Yom Kippur War
caught her, and
the country, by
surprise; she left office less than a year
later.
Afterward: She remained a forthright
and welcome voice on the world stage,
impressing visitors and audiences with
her sense of humor and straightfor-
ward opinions. Her life, from Milwau-
kee schoolteacher to kibbutz laborer to
political leader and prime minister,
was turned into a Broadway show,
Golda, and a TV movie, "A Woman
Called Golda."
YITZHAK RABIN
The look: A wiz-
ened haberdasher
who serves as a
part-time mayor.
The life: Mostly
military. Born in
Jerusalem, he
planned to be an
agronomist while
growing up. But the struggles for inde-
pendence attracted the young student,
and he was invited to join the Palmach
— the strike force of the underground
— by none other than Moshe Dayan,
later to be defense minister during the
Six-Day War. Rabin's daring exploits
during World War II have led some to
speculate that he was the basis for Ari
Ben Canaan, the hero of Leon Uris's
novel Exodus. After independence,
Rabin stayed in the Israeli army, eventu-
ally rising to chief of staff. A brilliant
(1922-1995)
tactician, he was responsible for the
training of the military forces that won
such a huge victory in 1967. But Rabin
did not participate in the Six-Day War
himself; he had suffered a nervous col-
lapse just before the fighting began.
The career: Turning to politics after his
recovery, he succeeded Golda Meir as
prime minister in 1974. He stepped
down after a financial scandal, but after
more than a decade in the political
wilderness, rode a Labor victory to the
prime minister's office in 1992. The
next year, he signed the peace treaty
with Yasir Arafat. For his efforts, a year
later he was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize.
Two years later, he was dead, the vic-
tim of an assassin's bullet in a Tel Aviv
plaza. The peace treaty, even in the
midst of current problems, remains his
lasting legacy.