After forming the American Young Sisters Society, she rented a hall and scheduled a public meeting for the event. A leader early on, she organized a fund raiser to pay for her classmates' textbooks. Golda attended the Fourth Street Grade School (now Golda Meir School) from 1906 to 1912. The following year, he had saved up enough money to bring his family to the United States.īlume ran a grocery store on Milwaukee's north side, where by age eight Golda had been put in charge of watching the store when her mother went to the market for supplies.

In 1905, Moshe moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in search of higher-paying work and found employment in the workshops of the local railroad yard. In his absence, the rest of the family moved to Pinsk to join her mother's family. Moshe Mabovitch left to find work in New York City in 1903.

She had two sisters, Sheyna and Tzipke, as well as five other siblings who died in childhood. Meir wrote in her autobiography that her earliest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to rumors of an imminent pogrom. Golda Mabovitch ( Ukrainian: Ґольда Мабович) was born on May 3, 1898, in Kiev, Russian Empire, present-day Ukraine, to Blume Neiditch (died 1951) and Moshe Mabovitch (died 1944), a carpenter.

2 Return to Milwaukee, Zionist activism, and teaching.

In 1974, after the end of the Yom Kippur War, Meir resigned as prime minister. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir 'the best man in the government' she was often portrayed as the 'strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people'. Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold such an office, she was described as the ' Iron Lady' of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Golda Meir (earlier Golda Meyerson, born Golda Mabovitch, Голда Мабович – December 8, 1978) was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Milwaukee State Normal School (Now, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)

My Life by Golda Meir