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From 1928 Golda Meir was the secretary of the Working Women's Council in Palestine, and as such, she was its representative on the executive of the Histadruth. She ... represented the council at a number of international labor congresses and was a delegate to its sister organization, the Pioneer Women, in the United States. After 1929 she was elected a delegate to most congresses of the World Zionist Organization. This was the beginning of her Zionist political activity. She was a member of the executive of the Jewish National Council in Palestine and served on the board of directors of a number of the Histadruth mutual aid programs, as well as a number of its industrial affiliates. In 1940 she was appointed head of the political department of the Histadruth.
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From 1928 Golda Meir was the secretary of the Working Women's Council in Palestine and served as its representative on the leadership of the Histadruth. She ... represented the council at a number of international labor meetings and was a delegate to its sister organization, the Pioneer Women, in the United States. After 1929 she was elected a delegate to most meetings of the World Zionist Organization. This was the real beginning of her Zionist political activity. In 1940 she was appointed head of the political department of the Histadruth. As such, she fought against the British White Paper of 1939, which limited Jewish immigration to Palestine.
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Golda Meir had many different jobs in the government of Israel. Finally, in 1969, she was elected Prime Minister (the head of the government) of Israel. It was very unusual for a woman to be a Prime Minister.
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ABSTRACT: The collection consists largely of reproduced correspondence, press releases, photographs, and speeches pertaining to Golda Meir's political life, primarily from 1955-1974. The correspondence is usually with friends and admirers, thanking Meir and communicating their support for her. There are two folders of photocopied materials originally created by Ms. Lou Kadar, Meir's secretary, containing supportive letters to Meir, and recollections of her life. The collection ... contains newsclippings, many in Hebrew, from the Jerusalem Post (1957-1983), and the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle (1973-1974), student records (1916), and numerous other papers (1947-1984) about Meir. The photographs are of Meir throughout her life, historic Jewish individuals, and the Milwaukee Jewish community. Also contained in the collection are oral history interviews with persons who knew Meir, including Yitzhak Rabin and Lou Kadar.
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Golda Meir served from 1969 to 1974 as the first and only female prime minister of Israel, after having held cabinet posts in the newly formed country from 1949 to 1966. Her interest in zionism began early on, after her family emigrated from the Ukraine to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1906. She and her husband, Morris Myerson, left Milwaukee for Palestine in 1921, where she joined the labor movement. During World War II, Meir represented the interests of the zionists in negotiations with the British and in 1946 replaced the head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency when the British imprisoned a number of Jewish activists. As minister of labor from 1949 to 1956, Meir oversaw the construction of roads and homes. She was appointed foreign minister in 1956, a position she would hold until she retired in 1966 to bolster the Labor Party.
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Golda Meir, née Goldie Mabovitch, was born in Kiev, Russia. Her family moved in 1906 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she spent her early years and became active in the Milwaukee Labor Zionist Party, later serving as its leader. In 1921 she and her husband, Morris Myerson, emigrated to Palestine and joined Kibbutz Merhavia. Goldie Myerson represented the kibbutz movement in the Histadrut (Labor Federation) and served as secretary of Histadrut's Women's Labor Council (1928 - 1932). In 1934 she was elected to the Histadrut's Executive Committee. In the years prior to Israel's independence, Myerson was the acting director of the Jewish Agency's Political Department under Moshe Sharett.
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