Golda Meir

Capturing a nation: Werner Braun’s photographic journey

Experience Israel’s history through Werner Braun’s lens at the Between Water and Sky exhibition at MUZA, Ramat Aviv.

Werner Braun's 1964 picture of five nuns in the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem is a symphony in monochrome.
Modern day hero Theodor Herzl.

Who will save Israel? Lessons from its greatest leaders - opinion

Tovah Feldshuh poses on the red carpet for the film "Tuner", as the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) returns for its 50th edition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 8, 2025.

Grapevine, December 14, 2025: Affordable acting

YMCA Christmas Fair

Jerusalem highlights: December 5-11


Helen Mirren will portray Golda Meir in new Yom Kippur War film

The focus of the movie will be the drama of and high-stakes nature of Meir's decisions during the Yom Kippur war.

Helen Mirren

Golda Meir is gone: Israel has a long way to go on gender equality

Golda Meir, who served as prime minister from 1969-1974, was an anomaly. Not only has there not been a woman prime minister since then, but there has not been a women defense minister ever.

‘AS THE only democracy in the Middle East, Israel’s legal guarantee of rights has meant that women play crucial roles in all aspects of Israeli society.’ Gold Meir during the 1973 war.

'Our Natural Right': Descendants of Declaration of Independence signers

The film tells the historic story through the voices of 10 adult grandchildren, all descendants of original signers of Israel’s Declaration of Independence.

A SCENE FROM ‘Our Natural Right’ at Tel Aviv’s Independence Hall.

Shira Haas to star in new show about Golda Meir

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

Shira Haas is seen in 'Shtisel.'

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

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

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

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.

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.

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'

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.

Golda Meir, the fourth Israeli prime minister.