Jewish Figure I'd Like to Meet Golda Meir
Jewish Figure I'd Like to Meet - Golda Meir
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...