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Golda by Elinor Burkett, written in 2008, is certainly a
definitive biography of Golda Meir, former prime minister of Israel. Perhaps
this is not a title that the readers of this blog are interested in, but I
found it to be a fantastic story about a very unique human being. If this
content is of interest to you, then please dive in.
Golda was the
first woman to lead a major western power when she became the prime minister of
Israel in 1969, and she was the prime minister during the 1973 war. She was
born in Russia in 1898, moved with her family to Milwaukee in 1906, and then
moved to Israel in 1924. She was a remarkable woman who quickly moved upwards
in the political movement to help create this new country. Although she had a
long marriage and delivered a son and daughter, Golda’s interest was much more
about working on behalf of Israel rather than being a wife and mother. She
lived until her death in 1978 at the age of 80. As much as it is said that
Israel would never have come into being had it not been for David Ben-Gurion,
that was probably true as well for Golda.
I was entranced
by her story.
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