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.

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

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

 GOLDA MEIR, 1964.

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


The deeper resonance of celebrating women each and every year - editorial

As long as gender equality exists in this world, Women's History Month and International Women's Day must be at the top of the agenda in Israel.

 Soldiers of the Bardales Battalion prepare for urban warfare training on an early foggy morning, near Nitzanim in the Arava area of Southern Israel, on July 13, 2016. Formed in 2014, the Bardales Battalion is an infantry combat battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, composed of 50% female soldiers

Yom Kippur War: Newly released archives detail Israel's POW deal with Syria

As part of its collection marking fifty years since the Yom Kippur War, the National Archives of Israel has detailed the role of US Sec. of State Henry Kissinger in the Israel-Syria negotiations.

 Long-range 175mm artillery in action on the Syrian Front, Yom Kippur War

Israeli Black Panthers founder, former MK Charlie Biton dead at 76

Biton served as an MK for the Communist party Hadash for 15 years, and then endorsed the Shas Party after retiring from political office.

A BLACK PANTHERS demonstration in the early 1970s.

Guy Nattiv’s ‘Golda’ wins Cinema for Peace award

Golda, the story of how Israel’s only female prime minister coped with the outbreak of the 1973 war, shared the prize with two other recent films that deal with issues connected to human rights.

DIRECTOR GUY Nattiv accepts a special award at Berlin’s Cinema for Peace Foundation.

Soviet Jewry's unsung heroes - opinion

Rabbi Jonathan Porath is well-known within his activist and conservative circles. For most of us, however, he is an unsung hero of the movement to liberate Soviet Jewry.

 JEWS IMMIGRATING from the former Soviet Union, 1990.

President Biden, there is broad consensus Palestinians are not ready for state - opinion

An open letter to US President Joe Biden.

 ‘WE THANK you and sincerely pray for your continued success in leading the world to sanity and to true humanity,’ says the writer in his letter to US President Joe Biden.

Golda makeup team makes shortlist for the Oscars

The final Oscar nominations will be announced on January 23 and the awards will be presented in a star-studded ceremony on March 10.

 Golda.

'The Only Woman in the Room': A feminist biography of Golda Meir - review

Most books about Golda Meir in English project her as a celebrity, “the grandmother of the nation,” and gloss over the politics. This book has chosen another direction.

 (FROM L) US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, prime minister Golda ‘the only woman in the room’ Meir, and Israeli ambassador to the US Simha Dinitz at the ambassador’s house in Washington, DC, 1970s.

Senators say Israel should be given time to defeat Hamas at commemorative event

The event coincided with the minting of commemorative coins of Golda Meir, Israel's fourth prime minister.

 Left to Right: Bobby Rechnitz, Chairman, Golda Meir Commemorative Coin Committee; Senator Ted Cruz, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, Ezra Friedlander, CEO, The Friedlander Group

'Eighteen Days in October': Strategy, diplomacy in the Yom Kippur War - review

Primarily a history of military tactics and strategy, Eighteen Days in October also addresses diplomacy, albeit briefly.

 PM MENACHEM BEGIN (R) and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat shake hands in the presence of a beaming US president Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Maryland, 1978. The peace treaty was signed March 26, 1979, and went into effect in January 1980.