Golda Meir

Showing some respect: Places around the world named after famous Israelis

At a time when the word "Israel" evokes controversy and extreme hostility in many places, it is moving to recall eras and locations where Israelis were actually a source of admiration.

|ByEYAL SHAPIRA
In April 2004, about nine years after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, an emotional official ceremony took place in the heart of Berlin to commemorate Israel’s fifth prime minister. Yitzhak-Rabin-Straße.
A rabbi blows a shoat ahead of Yom Kippur at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2026.

Inheriting moral instincts: How choices become a legacy – opinion

Our descendants absorb what we choose to do in times of crisis: they act based on what they watched us forgive, defend, and risk for others.

|ByKENNETH BRANDER
THIS TIME, Benjamin Netanyahu’s United Nations General Assembly address was meant to reflect an Israeli prime minister standing up to a hostile world. The question is whether this will reach the voters it was meant to impress, the writer wonders.

Netanyahu's UNGA speech pushed Israel's military prowess over its desire for peace - editorial

Might Netanyahu not have found room for another prop besides a bee that could begin rebranding Israel not only as a formidable war machine, but also as a country dedicated to peace?

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
GOLDA MEIR, 1964.

Golda read right to left. Some still don’t - opinion

Esther risked her own life so that the Jews of Persia would live. She did not instruct her people to accept their own erasure for the sake of the empire, as Nessel clearly stated.

|ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI

Shira Haas to star in new show about Golda Meir

Barbra Streisand will executive produce Lioness, a drama series about the life of Meir.

MARCH 1, 2021ByHANNAH BROWN
Shira Haas is seen in 'Shtisel.'

Grapevine February 7, 2021: Once there were Anglos in the Knesset

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 6, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
MACCABI HNAMTE (72) and his wife, Sarah (70), were among the Bnei Menashe couples who remarried recently at Shavei Israel’s immigrant absorption center in Nordia.

New photos show Golda Meir in Yom Kippur War operational meetings

Pictures released show prime minister Golda Meir meeting with top generals and soldiers in briefings

JANUARY 21, 2021ByANNA AHRONHEIM, JERUSALEM POST STAFF, BEN HARTMAN
Prime Minister Golda Meir during the Yom Kippur War.

When Biden met Meir: Joe Biden advised Jewish PM to trade land for peace

Following a return from Egypt where he discussed with Saadat regarding several things, roughly 40 days before the surprise attack that would turn into the Yom Kippur war.

OCTOBER 23, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
GERMAN AMBASSADOR Rolf Pauls kisses the hand of foreign minister Golda Meir, after presenting his credentials at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem in 1965.

Remembering the Rogers Plan and Israel’s forgotten war

A little more than half a century ago, Israel became embroiled in a war that seemed to be without end.

JUNE 8, 2020BySEAN DURNS
A helicopter waits to fly troops and equipment back after the completion of military action on Egypt’s Shadwan Island in 1970 during the War of Attrition

Gal Gadot channels Golda Meir in address to 2020 graduates

'She was the first female prime minister for Israel, and these words had a profound influence on many young people like myself growing up in Israel'

MAY 17, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
GOLDA MEIR takes a cigarette break, 1973

Golda Meir’s Yom Kippur letter to bereaved families has been discovered

"The memory of our loved ones motivates us to do anything in our power so that there be no more casualties, and we know no more bereavement,” Golda Meir wrote.

OCTOBER 8, 2019ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
Golda Meir, the fourth Israeli prime minister.

Historic Krumbach Torah Ark to be auctioned off in NY City

The ark, made by American soldiers for Holocaust survivors, helped renew Jewish prayer after World War II.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019ByHEDDY BREUER ABRAMOWITZ
Torah Ark

The NRP – from Golda Meir to Ayelet Shaked

Now we are facing a new stage in the whitewashing of women in public positions.

AUGUST 4, 2019ByASHER MAOZ
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at Kohelet Conference in Jerusalem, October 9, 2018

Golda Meir wasn't a big fan of Eurovison in archived interview

Meir, with cigarette in hand, is seen holding her head disapprovingly as she references "that festival in Paris, the competition."

MAY 15, 2019ByTZVI JOFFRE
GOLDA MEIR takes a cigarette break, 1973