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Golda Meir

Golda Meir served in office as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. She was elected as Prime Minister on the 17th of March in 1969. Previously, she held offices as the Minister of Labor and as the Foreign Minister. She was often referred to as the “Iron Lady” of Israel. She resigned in 1974, the year the Yom Kippur war ended.

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THEN-PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir meets with then-US president Richard Nixon, as then-secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger looks on, in the Oval Office of the White House, November 1, 1973.

Drawing relevant lessons from Nixon’s 1973 Middle East diplomacy

By JUDAH WAXELBAUM
 Members of Hezbollah stand in front of an image of Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander who was killed by an Israeli strike on Tuesday, during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon August 1, 2024.

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 PROTESTERS RALLY for a ceasefire in Gaza, outside an auto workers union hall in Michigan during a visit by President Joe Biden, in February. It’s the Muslims in Minnesota and Michigan who Biden mistakenly believes hold the key to his second term, says the writer.

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 Tel Aviv citizens waiting to have their passport photos taken, January 23, 1949

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By GIL ZOHAR
 We’ll only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.’ Former prime minister Golda Meir speaks during a session of the World Zionist Congress, at the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv.

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 THEN-PRIME minister Golda Meir speaks at Beit Hanassi in the presence of then-president Ephraim Katzir in 1973.

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 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir meets with then-US president Richard Nixon in the Oval Office as then-secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger looks on, in November 1973.

More female representation in government, please

By SONIA GOMES DE MESQUITA
 Soldiers of the Bardales Battalion prepare for urban warfare training on an early foggy morning, near Nitzanim in the Arava area of Southern Israel, on July 13, 2016. Formed in 2014, the Bardales Battalion is an infantry combat battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, composed of 50% female soldiers

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 Long-range 175mm artillery in action on the Syrian Front, Yom Kippur War

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A BLACK PANTHERS demonstration in the early 1970s.

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DIRECTOR GUY Nattiv accepts a special award at Berlin’s Cinema for Peace Foundation.

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 JEWS IMMIGRATING from the former Soviet Union, 1990.

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 ‘WE THANK you and sincerely pray for your continued success in leading the world to sanity and to true humanity,’ says the writer in his letter to US President Joe Biden.

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By RABBI MOSHE HAUER
 Golda.

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 (FROM L) US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, prime minister Golda ‘the only woman in the room’ Meir, and Israeli ambassador to the US Simha Dinitz at the ambassador’s house in Washington, DC, 1970s.

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By COLIN SHINDLER
 Left to Right: Bobby Rechnitz, Chairman, Golda Meir Commemorative Coin Committee; Senator Ted Cruz, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, Ezra Friedlander, CEO, The Friedlander Group

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 PM MENACHEM BEGIN (R) and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat shake hands in the presence of a beaming US president Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Maryland, 1978. The peace treaty was signed March 26, 1979, and went into effect in January 1980.

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By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
 Lauren Friedman works on one of the IAF's F-35 fighter jets.

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