Golda Meir
Golda Meir · Heroes of Israel
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel; led the country through the Yom Kippur War
1898, Kyiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1978, Jerusalem, Israel
Israel · United States
Golda Meir is recognized among Israeli contributors to Heroes of Israel — Fourth Prime Minister of Israel; led the country through the Yom Kippur War
Golda Meir was a Zionist labor leader who emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United States and then to Mandatory Palestine, becoming a founding signatory of Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948. In 1969 she became Israel's fourth prime minister and its first woman to hold the office. She was Jewish, born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Kyiv.
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Fourth Prime Minister of Israel; led the country through the Yom Kippur War
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