Post by homesick on Jan 16, 2009 6:07:27 GMT -7
Golda Meir said this 40 years ago, and it still is so true!!
Golda Meir (IPA: [/ɠɔlda maj:er/],[1] Hebrew: גּוֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר, Arabic: جولدا مائير, born Golda Mabovitch, 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978, known as Golda Myerson from 1917–56) was the fourth prime minister of the State of Israel.
Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on 17 March 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. She was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.[2] David Ben-Gurion used to call her "the best man in the government."[3] Meir was Israel's first female prime minister. She was the world's third female prime minister, but the first to hold this office without any prior family connection.[4] Meir was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, gray-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people."[3]