Golda Meir
An 18-country network codenamed “Kilowatt” reportedly gave Israeli agents information on Palestinians, some of whom were assassinated in Europe.
The funder of the effort told JNS that “disgruntled leaders on the Democratic side” are trying to block the legislation
Thousands of Soviet Jews risked persecution to greet Israel’s first ambassador, overwhelming security measures to show solidarity with the new Jewish state.
The Kyiv City Council renamed the site in honor of the Israeli prime minister on the 125th anniversary of her birth.
The only woman prime minister to date spoke to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and several generals one month after the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Born in Tel Aviv and now living in LA, he spoke with JNS about the film, which is somewhat of “a requiem” for former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir as a leader.
Golda Meir’s great-granddaughter studied in Israel this summer and spent time at the Ben-Gurion Archive.
“We feel that here’s a woman in Golda Meir, who stood for so many things,” said initiative funder Bobby Rechnitz. “She was very progressive and very liberal, and yet she helped found the country and fulfill the Zionist dream.”
Controversy has surrounded the non-Jewish actress playing the legendary Jewish prime minister.
The material “makes it possible to follow the inter-governmental dynamics and consultations ... that led to the heavy fighting,” says the ISA.
The screenplay focuses on the challenges that the 1973 war presented to Israel’s “Iron Lady.”
Barbra Streisand will be the executive producer of the project based on the book “Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel.”
