Question

What role did Golda Meir play in the formation of Israel?


She helped build the first Jewish settlements in Israel and led the nation’s first independent government.


She served in the Israeli armed forces and led the attack on Egypt in the Six-Day War.


She joined the independence movement and later became Israel’s first woman Prime Minister.


She voted for Israeli nationhood at the United Nations and served as the first U.S. minister to Israel.

Answer 1

She joined the independence movement and later became Israel’s first woman Prime Minister.

Golda Meir was born in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire). Her family emigrated to the United States, where they settled in Milwaukee, WI. Golda Meir became a Zionist activist and helped raise funds for the settlement and establishment of Israel. She later went on to become prime minister of Israel, holding that office from 1969 to 1974. She was in office during the time that Israeli athletes were attacked at the Munich Olympics in 1972, and also during the October War in 1973 (also known as the Yom Kippur War or the Ramadan War).