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Meir, Golda, née Goldie Mabovich, later Goldie Myerson 1898-1978
Israeli politician

She was born in Kiev, and her family emigrated to Milwaukee, USA, when she was eight years old. She married in 1917 and settled in Palestine in 1921, where she took up social work and became a leading figure in the Labour movement. She was Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Union (1948-49), Minister of Labour (1949-56), and Foreign Minister (1956-66). She was elected Prime Minister in 1969, but her efforts for peace in the Middle East were halted by the fourth Arab-Israeli War (1973) and she resigned in 1974.