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...Zion. Since the birth of the Jewish state in 1948, 1.6 million Jews have settled in the country, and Jerusalem encourages others to come by offering generous financial and moral support. Last week, speaking in New York to the annual convention of the Labor Zionist Alliance, former Premier Golda Meir asked for the aliyah (immigration) of 2 million Jews to Israel in the next two years. "It is the one answer the Arabs understand," she said, referring to the constant threat of Arab-Israeli hostilities...
...Bring On the Empty Horses, Niven (1) 3-Angels, Graham (7) 4-Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Porter (3) 5-The People 's Almanac, Wallechinsky & Wallace (4) 6-The Ascent of Man, Bronowski 7-Memoirs, Williams (6) 8 -Life Goes to the Movies 9-My Life, Meir(10) 10-The New Yorker Album of Drawings...
...Life, Meir...
Such self-protective quasi candor is a characteristic of all political autobi ographies; Mrs. Meir's memory is no worse than the next leader's. What dis figures her book is an unbecoming - and unfamiliar - reticence, coupled with an artificial folksy tone. Her recollections too often sound like Molly Goldberg with portfolio, handing out 40,000 recipes for chicken soup on a U.S. visit or brewing 4 a.m. tea for herself and her bodyguards in the prime ministerial kitchen. More important, revelations that might have been expected have been dodged...
...reason for this reticence seems manifest: Mrs. Meir's career ended on a stark and bitter note. During the Yom Kippur War, it fell to her as Premier to assess intelligence reports of Arab intentions and, as a circle of one, decide at what point the Israeli army should be mobilized. She waited too long; before mobilization was finally ordered and the battle with Egypt and Syria stabilized, Israel had lost more men than in any war since 1948. "I should have listened to the warnings of my heart and ordered a call-up," she now admits. For Israel...