Girls Who Rocked the World by Michelle Roehm McCann & Amelie Welden

Author:Michelle Roehm McCann & Amelie Welden [McCann, Michelle Roehm & Welden, Amelie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Publisher: Aladdin/Beyond Words
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Golda Meir

1898–1978 PRIME MINISTER ISRAEL

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

—GOLDA MEIR

No daughter of mine is going to stand on a box in the street and make a spectacle of herself. It is a shandeh (disgrace)!” shouted Golda’s father, his face red with fury. Seventeen-year-old Golda tried to explain that she had already promised herself and her friends that she would give the speech in front of the synagogue. She tried to explain that her past speeches had been very successful at getting the neighborhood Jews excited about helping their comrades in far-off Palestine. But her angry father didn’t hear a word she said as he yelled, “If you go, I will follow you and pull you home by your braid!” Golda went anyway, but she could feel her body shaking as she climbed atop her box to speak to the large crowd.

Because she worked mornings in the shop, Golda was often late for school. A policeman lectured Golda’s mother about truancy, but since she spoke little English, she didn’t understand him. Golda continued being late.

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