Israel’s Iron Lady Unfiltered: 17 Golda Meir Quotes on Her 117th Birthday
The wise, the whimsical and the downright polemical.
Born Golda Mabovitch on May 3, 1898, in Kiev, present-day Ukraine, Israel’s only woman prime minister has been called many things: a trailblazing Zionist lioness; the only “man” in David Ben-Gurion’s cabinet; but also, a failure for not properly preparing the country for the bloody Yom Kippur War; and a denier of Palestinian national rights.