Golda Meir: Time Period and Location Timeline
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Time Period and Geographic Location Timeline

1898- Goldie Mabovitch is born in Kiev, Russia on May third.

1906- Mabovitch family emigrates to United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin when Goldie is eight years old.

1913- Mabovitch meets Morris Meyerson while attending high school.

1915- Mabovitch joins the Labor Zionist Party.

1917- Meir marries Morris Meyerson.

1921- Mr. and Mrs. Meyerson emigrate to British Mandate Palestine when Meyerson is twenty-three.

1924- Mr. and Mrs. Meyerson move to Tel Aviv.

1928- Meyerson is elected to the woman’s labor council of Histadrut.

1934- Meyerson is chosen secretary of Histadrut’s executive committee.

1936- Meyerson joins the Palestine labor movement and becomes head of the political department of the General Federation of Jewish Labor (Histadrut).

1939- Meyerson attends the Zionist Congress in Geneva.

1945- Meyerson divorces from her husband, and changes her name to Golda Meir.

1946- Meyerson replaces Moshe Sharett as head of the Jewish Agency’s Political Department.

1948- Meyerson is appointed to be a member of the Provisional Government.

1948- Meyerson signs the proclamation establishing the state of Israel as part of the People’s Counsel.

1948- Meyerson serves as the first minister to the USSR.

1949- Meyerson serves as minister of labor and social insurance for eight years.

1951- Morris Meyerson, Meyerson’s former husband, dies.

1956- Meyerson changes her name to Golda Meir, which means to burn brightly.

1956- Meir serves as foreign minister for ten years.

1966- Meir becomes secretary-general of the Mapai party.

1969- Meir becomes interim prime minister after the death of Levi Eshkol.

1969-Meir is nominated by the Labor Party on March seventh to be the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.

1971- Meir keeps tremendous popularity after defeating a “no confidence” vote that was put up against her on the grounds that she “had made excessive connections to Egypt in peace negotiations (infoplease, 2003).”

1973- Meir rallies Israeli forces after a surprise attack by Egypt and Syria. This is the beginning of the Arab-Israeli War.

1974- Meir resigns from office in April after two unsuccessful attempts to form a new coalition government.

1978- Golda Meir dies on December eighth, and is buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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Caitlyn Jenkins, 1/27/04