It was difficult to choose a person in Jewish history who I would like to meet. I decided on Golda Meir because she was a strong political figure for women and Israel. Golda was a Russian like me who immigrated to America at an early age. Also she wanted to help Israel become a state and I want to help Israel become even a greater state then it is now.
As a Russian I have a close tie with Golda Meir. We both were born in Russia at a time of Jewish discrimination. Our fathers wanted us to have a life free from discrimination and have a better future than we would have in Russia. Both of our fathers took us to America. When she was in America she became interested in Palestine because her sister had become a Zionist. She wanted Palestine to become Israel. I want Israel to become a haven to Jews not a place where they feel in danger of being killed.
Golda Meir’s life in politics was a long and hard one. She faced many challenges for the nation of Israel. First she was the ambassador to USSR and faced the challenge of allowing the government to let her publish news about Israel and its current events. Also she had to fight the government for Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel. Golda lost both of those battles. With nothing else left for her to do in the USSR and when David Ben-Gurion asked her to go back to Israel and become the Minister of Labor she quickly consented. She never knew what the new challenges were going to be. Her challenges were dept, lack of housing, unemployment, and absorbing the one thousand immigrants a day that came. These problems were slowly but surely contended with. I have a high opinion of Golda Meir and her challenges with which she faced with the noble intent of helping everyone. Then she became Foreign minister of Israel. In 1969 she was the first woman who became prime minister of Israel, during a time when so few women were in political power. As prime minister she had more problems to deal with but every problem she had, she dealt with fairly. In the beginning of her term in office she had secret meetings with world leaders in search of peace in the Middle East but that never happened. This and everything else she did in her political life has made me want to become a senator and then maybe go to Israel and help Israel with its problems and follow Golda Meir’s footsteps.
The Term Paper on The Legacy of Golda Meir
The history of Israel would not be complete without the discussion of the life of Golda Meir, an important woman and an important leader for Israel and who have contributed immensely for the sake of Israel and her fellowman – the Jews. Her Early Life Golda Meir was first Golda Mabovitch, a daughter of a carpenter for a father, with a mother who migrated to the United States, where they followed ...
These are some of the reasons why I would like to meet Golda Meir. Her life was a hard one but she followed it happily. I am very proud to know that she was part of Jewish history because there have been women in almost every country like her yet not like her. She was one of a kind and if I can be something like her I would be very happy.
