Golda Meir

Grapevine: Knowing Golda

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Prime Minister Golda Meir
DAME HELEN Mirren attends a reception at St James's Palace to mark International Women's Day and the fifteenth year of WOW on March 10, 2026 in London, England.

'Evil Zionist b****': Helen Mirren harassed on London streets over Israel support

Werner Braun's 1964 picture of five nuns in the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem is a symphony in monochrome.

Capturing a nation: Werner Braun’s photographic journey

Modern day hero Theodor Herzl.

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


Still trust Biden on Israel? Don’t - opinion

Israel's people "will remain proud Jews, standing by the principles that Israel and America will continue to share long after Biden has been forgotten," the author writes.

 PROTESTERS RALLY for a ceasefire in Gaza, outside an auto workers union hall in Michigan during a visit by President Joe Biden, in February. It’s the Muslims in Minnesota and Michigan who Biden mistakenly believes hold the key to his second term, says the writer.

Before biometrics: Israel's earliest passports and travel documents

The first Israeli passport issued was in the name of Golda Meir, who at the time worked for the Jewish Agency and was soon to become Israel’s ambassador to the Soviet Union.

 Tel Aviv citizens waiting to have their passport photos taken, January 23, 1949

Editors Notes: Biden heard the words of Israeli PMs, but didn't actually listen - comment

President Biden, we literally have no place to go. And no, as Begin told you, we won’t sit back and wait for someone else to eliminate Hamas. 

 We’ll only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.’ Former prime minister Golda Meir speaks during a session of the World Jewish Congress, at the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv.

Bibi’s Golda moment: Netanyahu is faced with the same situation as Golda Meir - opinion

Half a century on, Benjamin Netanyahu faces the same combination of public wrath and political dead end that Meir faced when Passover 1974 approached.

 THEN-PRIME minister Golda Meir speaks at Beit Hanassi in the presence of then-president Ephraim Katzir in 1973.

More female representation in government, please - opinion

Women are not better than men, but they are also no worse. It is time to meet the challenge laid down decades ago by our one and only female leader.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir meets with then-US president Richard Nixon in the Oval Office as then-secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger looks on, in November 1973.

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.