“Make the most of yourself
by fanning the tiny, inner
sparks of possibility
into flames of achievement.”
~Golda Meir
Meir was elected
Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969,
[2] after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. 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.
[3] 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."
[4]
In 1974, after the conclusion of the Yom Kippur War, Meir resigned as prime minister. She died in 1978.
