Please carefully review any restrictions accompanying the Licensed Material on the Getty Images website and contact your Getty Images representative if you have a question about them. "Get email notification for articles from David B. GreenWhen Golda Meir, Israel's First and Only Female PM, Also Took a Fall The Yom Kippur War Came as a Surprise to the Egyptians as Well, Documents Show Prime Minister Golda Meir, right, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, center, meeting IDF soldiers in the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War.Francine Klagsbrun's 2017 biography 'Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel.'
Though Rahabi, 60, thinks some of the disregard for Golda is derived from sexism, he is convinced that her negative image was principally caused by a campaign of “character assassination” led by “parts of Israeli politics that aren’t able to accept that there were periods in our short history as a state that the Arab states were not willing to accept the existence of a Jewish state. Speaking with Haaretz by phone from her home in New York, Klagsbrun noted that when she interviewed Menahem, “you could not say a single negative thing about her. She was the editor of the best-selling Free To Be You and Me, produced by Marlo Thomas and the Ms. Foundation. Despite its impressive name, Rahabi stresses that the institute has the most minimal of budgets, and mainly points to projects undertaken by others that he thinks indicate a growing receptiveness to a revisionist view of Golda.In addition to Klagsbrun’s book (which has not yet been picked up for publication in Hebrew), there is a documentary in the works about Meir’s tenure as prime minister. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Her newest work is an in-depth biography of Golda Meir to be published in September 2017 by Schocken Books. Klagsbrun noted that once, during an interview with an American journalist, Meir defended her neglect of her children, saying, in Klagsbrun’s paraphrase, “I wasn’t doing this for no reason, I was doing it for an important cause that also affected their lives, too.
(I’m grateful that he still wears braces on his teeth; at least some vestiges of childhood remain.) In case of abuse, His letters to Golda are heartbreaking, with “your passionately lovelorn Morris,” as he signed off one of them, openly confessing that “the whole complex of my being is as ever continuously athrill under the sway and charm of your glorious feminity,” even though part of him understood that the feelings were no longer mutual.The two never divorced, but they also never lived together again (Morris died in 1951), and Golda, though she was apparently intimate with such dynamic (and married) Zionist colleagues as David Remez and Zalman Shazar, who was to become Israel’s third president, remained committed principally to her work.Klagsbrun portrays a complex relationship between Golda and her children, Menahem (1924-2014) and Sarah (1926-2010).
They recognized that.”And indeed, Golda always volunteered for the toughest jobs, into which she then threw herself in full.