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Golda Meir: Morris Myerson
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When Golda was 14, she began attending North Division High School and took part-time jobs to pay expenses. Her mother suggested that she give up school for work and to marry. Golda rebelled and ran away to Denver, Colorado, where her older sister, Sheyna, was living. She stayed for about a year in a duplex at 1606 Julian Street. Golda attended North High School there and met Morris Meyerson, a sign painter, whom she would later marry.
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In 1956, she followed the custom of adopting a Hebrew name, changing her name from Myerson to Meir, meaning “burn brightly” and pronounced “May-ear”. (Her husband, Morris Myerson, had died in 1951.) In the same year she became Israel’s Foreign Minister, engaging in the secret negotiations with France before the Suez conflict. It was a time when the interests of Israel, Britain and France coincided. Egypt had nationalized the Suez Canal, which had previously been the property of the British and French companies which had built it. At the same time Egypt closed the Canal to shipping to and from Israel and blockaded the Straits of Tiran at the entrance to the Gulf of Akaba, which would otherwise have provided Israel with alternative access to the Red Sea and the East, including Australia. Meanwhile Egyptian irregular forces, described as Fedayeen, were using the Sinai as a base to mount attacks on Israelis in the south of the country.
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In 1917, Golda took a position at a Yiddish-speaking Folks Schule. While at the Folks Schule, she came more closely into contact with the ideals of Labor Zionism. In 1913, she began dating Morris Meyerson; they married on December 24, 1917. She did not Hebraicize her name to Meir until 1956, when she did so at the urging of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion at the time she was appointed Foreign Minister.
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Golda became restless with life as a housewife. In 1928, she was offered the job as secretary of Histadrut’s Council for Women workers. Despite her husband’s disapproval, she took the job and moved to Tel Aviv with her two children. Ten years later, Golda and Morris separated, although they never legally divorced. Golda worked hard at her new political career but always felt guilty about not doing enough to save her marriage and about neglecting her children.
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Golda married Morris Myerson in 1917 but later adopted the Hebrew name of Meir. The couple emigrated to Palestine in 1921 and became active in the emerging socialist movement in the country. She was elected to the woman's labour council of Histadrut in 1928.
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In 1957, Golda was appointed to the position of Israel's foreign minister. At this time Golda changed her married name Myerson, to it's Hebrew form of Meir which means "to illuminate." As foreign minister, Golda helped to increase aid given to other developing countries. Her most important goal was to have peace between the Arabs and the Jews. She worked tirelessly to make this dream come true, but in 1966, she reluctantly came to the decision that it was time for her to retire.
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