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A stateswoman, Labor Party leader, the only woman to serve thus far as Prime Minister of Israel, and the third female prime minister in the modern history. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, as a young child she was witness to pogroms against Jews. In 1906, she and her family imemigrated to the United States and she grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she received a teaching degree. After coming to Mandatory Palestine Israel in 1921, she and her husband joined Kibbutz Merhavia. Her political career began as secretary of the Council of Working Women and represented the organization in the United States. Meir was Israel’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union, served as Minister of Labor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as served as Prime Minister between 1969 and 1974. She resigned from that position in the wake of the Yom Kippur War.
