Did Israel ever had a Female prime minister?

Question

Who is she and tell me more about her main contribution to Israel during her term.

Answer 1

The only lady prime minister that I know.was a very strong yet kindly lady called Golda Meir born in1898 and died the year my daughter was born 1978,she was of Russian birth,and a politician first and became Prime Minister1969-74,after serving as the Foreign Minister from 1956-66. She was a labour Minister,she kept her ministers in control with a quiet motherly-type discipline,and Israel was able to safely sail the choppy waters of the volatile hot-spot and with her at the helm. She finally resigned in 1974 after critism of the Israelis preparation for the 1973 Arab-Israeli War,she died 4 years after retiring.

Answer 2

Golda Meier

Answer 3

yep her name was Golda Meir... she was our prime minister during the six day war, when all the midle eastern countries went to war wit hisrael.. her term was 5 years from 1969-1974.. also from 1949 to 1956 she was the Israeli Minister of Labor.. in conclusion to you question Golda Meir was one of the best prime ministers israel had.. she led israel through many wars and hardships.. if you want more information go to: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/meir.html

Answer 4

Golda Meir

Answer 5

Yes, Golda Meier

Answer 6

Golda Mier....probably one of the best Prime Minister the world has seen... a strong woman....and the resolve to carry what she thought her nation needed....

Answer 7

I don't know what she contributed to Israel but her name was Golda Meir. Google her for more info.

Answer 8

Golda Meier
(1898-1978)

One of the most famous statements of this great woman was the following: “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but not for making our sons killers.” That is a classic Jewish response; better, a classic Jewish mother’s response, to war.

Golda Meier was born in Kiev in 1898. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1906, settling in Milwaukee. While in high school, she joined a Zionist youth group called “Poalei Zion,” Workers for Zion. Together with her husband, Morris Myerson, she “made Aliyah” in 1921. Moving up the ladder of leadership of the Zionist Movement in Israel, she was in a position to replace Moshe Sharett as head of the Jewish Agency’s political department when the British arrested a large percentage of the Jewish leadership in the country.

During the War of Independence of the State of Israel in 1948, David ben Gurion sent her disguised as an Arab to Jordan to meet with King Abdullah and try to persuade him not to attack the fledgling State, but to no avail. (The lesson was not learned by another Jordanian monarch in June of 1967, when again, in the early hours of the Six-Day War, King Hussein could not be persuaded to refrain from attacking Israel, with disastrous consequences for himself and his country, but glorious ones for the Jewish People, including the recapture of the Old City of Jerusalem.) However, she had more success as Foreign Minister, the office that she held for ten years, beginning in 1956. She initiated Israel’s policy of assisting African countries that were themselves emerging into independence at that time. When Levi Eshkol died in 1969, she became Prime Minister, becoming the third female prime minister in the world, after Indira Gandhi of India, and P.M. Bandaranaika of Sri Lanka.

The Yom Kippur War broke out, to the consternation of the Jewish World, during her administration, with major coordinated assaults by Egypt and Syria, coming from across the Suez Canal and on the Golan Heights, respectively, on October 6, 1973. Of course, in their religious “sensitivity,” these assaults were timed by the Arabs to coincide with the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. According to the report of the Agranant Commission, both the government and the military had erred grievously in their assessment of both Arab military preparation and intentions on the eve of the War.

Ariel Sharon was instrumental in saving Israel from disaster when he crossed the Suez Canal in the opposite direction, effectively surrounding and cutting off the major concentration of Egyptian military might. On the whole, though, the psychological effect of this War, with great benefit for both the Arabs and ourselves, was the breaking of the myth of the invincibility of the Israel Defense Forces.

Although the Labor Party, with Golda Meier at its head, won the Israeli elections later in 1973, Mrs. Meier resigned in 1974, in favor of Yitzchak Rabin. She passed away on December 1, 1978, and was laid to rest on Har Herzl in Yerushalayim.

Answer 9

golda meir
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/meir.html

Answer 10

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