Who is Golda Meir?
Golda Meir was the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. She lived from 1898 to 1978, was served in office for five years, between 1969 and 1974. She was known as the Iron Lady, a term that would later be used to describe Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain. To date, Golda Meir is the only woman to have served as Prime Minister of Israel, and was the third female Prime Minister in the world, and the first to reach that position without any family influence. Golda Meir was born in Kiev, in what is now the Ukraine and at the time was part of the Russian Empire. She left for the United States at the age of eight, and her and her family settled in Wisconsin. From an early age Golda Meir was an organizer and a brilliant woman, organizing fund raisers for her classes and graduating as valedictorian from her high school. By the time she was 16, Golda Meir had been introduced to Zionism, and became active in the Socialist Zionist movement. Golda Meir was married at 19, and hoped to move soo
