In 1966, Meir retired from politics due to health problems but soon reemerged to help form a coalition government from the Mapai, Achdut HaAvodah, and Rafi parties, known as the Israel Labor Party. She then went on to serve as the Minister of Labour (1949-56) and Foreign Minister (1956-66). Following World War II, Meir was a signatory on the Israel Independence Declaration in 1948. Four years later, Meir became the secretary of the Women’s Labor Council and in 1934 joined the executive council of the Histadrut (General Federation of Jewish Labor). Here she joined Kibbutz Merhavia, a communal settlement, until 1924, when she moved to Jerusalem with her family. During this time, Meir became a leader of the Milwaukee Labor Zionist Party.Įager to participate more fully for the cause, Meir and her husband Morris Meyerson set out for Palestine in 1921, which at the time was under British civil administration and would remain so until 1948. Valedictorian of her class at Fourth Street, Meir went on to attend North Division High School and then Wisconsin State Normal School. There, the family opened a grocery store, which Meir helped run while attending the Fourth Street School (now named Golda Meir School). Shortly thereafter, the family emigrated to Milwaukee. Indeed, in 1903 her family moved to Pinsk to escape the threat of Russian pogroms. Born Golda Mabowitz on in Kiev, the future Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, faced anti-Semitism from an early age.
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