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...said the 70-year-old grandmother that the Israelis last week chose to serve as Premier at least until elections next October. For Golda Meir, the statement was an unusual admission of human frailty. Far more characteristic was her tart reply to those critics who murmured that she might be too old for the demanding task before her: "Seventy...
...Myerson, as she was known until 1956, when on Premier Ben-Gurion's insistence she Hebraized her name to Meir ["illuminates"], joined the Histadrut, the Jewish Labor Federation, and swiftly rose to its executive committee. When the first Arab-Israeli war loomed in 1948, she undertook her first major diplomatic mission: crossing the border disguised as an Arab woman to meet with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman. The mission failed, and on the way back her Arab driver refused to take her to the border. Accompanied by an aide, she walked by night two miles...
...Israel's first woman Premier, Mrs. Meir will, if past performance is a guide, be more decisive than her predecessor and no less unyielding on Israel's twin demands of a negotiated peace settlement with the Arabs and permanent annexation of parts of the territories occupied in the 1967 war. "I oppose anyone who speaks of morality on the territories issues," she has declared. "It is the essence of morality to ensure the survival of the Jewish people in the Jewish state...
Last week, in the first interview she has granted since Eshkol's death, Mrs. Meir added: "As long as the Arabs won't sit down with us, that means they don't accept our existence. Nasser must conclude that peace is not something he can give to Israel as a luxury or fulfillment of its need, but as something at least as necessary for his people as for the Israelis. It's not a present for him to give to us. It's something that his children, the children in the Nile valley, need...
...city. After a service in the Knesset plaza, the procession moved quickly to the graveside, where the coffin was hurriedly lowered into a stone-lined grave. Acting Premier Allon stood beside Eshkol's widow, Miriam, while Dayan stood at the edge of the crowd and Mrs. Meir, teary-eyed and pale, was lost amid the throng. An army detail placed slabs of marble on top of the coffin and then poured baskets of Jerusalem earth into the grave...