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.

|ByEYAL SHAPIRA
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

Our descendants absorb what we choose to do in times of crisis: they act based on what they watched us forgive, defend, and risk for others.

|ByKENNETH BRANDER
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

Might Netanyahu not have found room for another prop besides a bee that could begin rebranding Israel not only as a formidable war machine, but also as a country dedicated to peace?

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
GOLDA MEIR, 1964.

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

Esther risked her own life so that the Jews of Persia would live. She did not instruct her people to accept their own erasure for the sake of the empire, as Nessel clearly stated.

|ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI

Israel and Jordan: A troubled peace - opinion

Despite the early optimism, Israel-Jordan relations deteriorated into a cold peace and now are seemingly condemned to the back burner.

JANUARY 13, 2023ByMARK REGEV
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein shake hands, as then-US president Bill Clinton applauds, at the peace treaty signing ceremony at the border between the two countries, in 1994.

The life of Israel's forgotten prime minister, Moshe Sharett

October 15 is the birthday of Moshe Sharett, Israel's second prime minister, who served as premier for 21 months from 1954-55.

OCTOBER 13, 2022ByMARK REGEV
MOSHE SHARETT became prime minister in highly challenging circumstances. The Jewish state was less than six years old and Arab hostility remained omnipresent.

Grapevine September 25, 2022: It’s in the book

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU attends a conference in Jerusalem, last week.

An Israeli prime minister facing misogyny: A feminist look at Golda Meir - review

How Israel's first female prime minister Golda Meir balanced power, coped with discrimination and rejected feminism.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER
Prime minister Golda Meir, accompanied by her defense minister Moshe Dayan, meets with soldiers on the Golan Heights after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Gilboa Pimping Affair: Israel shouldn't see prostitution as 'normal' - opinion

I am sure that Golda is turning over in her grave, and I hope Ben-Gurion is as well, with the advent of this sick pimping of Jewish Israeli women to Palestinian Arab security prisoners, or at all.

AUGUST 26, 2022ByJONATHAN FELDSTEIN
PIMP? GILBOA Prison warden Freddy Ben-Sheetrit arrives for testimony, in Modi’in, July 26.

The Golda Awards: A celebration of student leaders fighting for Israel - opinion

The goal was not simply to give credit where it’s due, but to show our community that these students are on the frontlines against antisemitism today.

JUNE 19, 2022ByDANIEL KOREN
STUDENTS RECEIVE certificates at The Golda Awards in Toronto, at the beginning of this month.

Brazilian-born athlete brings take on Golda Meir, life to Beersheba

Rodrigo Artilheiro says he has been keen to sculpt the late prime minister, and bring her over here, for quite some time.

MAY 30, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
RODRIGO ARTILHEIRO gets close to Golda Meir.

Mohamed Hadid: Golda Meir 'proud Palestinian,' shows coexistence before Zionism

Golda Meir's remarks "prove though, that tolerance, co-existence and peace were prevalent in Palestine pre-1948," said Mohamed Hadid.

MAY 9, 2022ByMICHAEL STARR
GOLDA MEIR takes a cigarette break, 1973

Former Israeli PM Golda Meir is hero to Ukrainians fighting Russia

Almost as soon as the war began, memes riffing on a quote often attributed to Meir, adapted to the current conflict, began circulating online.

MARCH 9, 2022ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
A Ukrainian soldier named Alex keeps Golda Meir's biography in his backpack.

Helen Mirren speaks out about playing Golda Meir

“I do believe it is a discussion that has to be had – it’s utterly legitimate.”

FEBRUARY 6, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
HELEN MIRREN as Golda Meir.