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As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister

This book delves into the life and political career of Golda Meir, focusing on her personal warmth and leadership qualities that shaped her as a prominent figure in Israeli politics. more

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Golda Meir
Golda Meir

Golda Meir was a distinguished Israeli politician and diplomat, serving as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She played a pivotal role in the establishment of the State of Israel and was recognized for her strong leadership and dedication to the Jewish people's struggle for statehood. Meir was born on May 3, 1898, in Kiev, Ukraine, and passed away on December 8, 1978. more

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“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.”

“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!”