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Golda Meir

1898 - 1978

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Golda Meir (née Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was the prime minister of Israel, serving from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government. Born into a Jewish family in Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), Meir immigrated with her family to the United States in 1906. She graduated from the Milwaukee State Normal School and found work as a teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Golda Meir is the 263rd most popular politician (down from 118th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 4th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Golda Meir was the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. She is most famous for her work as a Zionist and for her leadership of Israel during the Yom Kippur War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Golda Meir ranks 263 out of 19,576. Before her are Heraclius, José Mujica, Septimius Severus, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Anastasius I Dicorus, and Saparmurat Niyazov. After her are Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Mehmed IV, Enver Hoxha, Konrad Adenauer, and Frederick IX of Denmark.

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Among people born in 1898, Golda Meir ranks 2. Before her is Bertolt Brecht. After her are Erich Maria Remarque, Alvar Aalto, Federico García Lorca, Enzo Ferrari, Sergei Eisenstein, René Magritte, Stefania Turkewich, Umm Kulthum, Zhou Enlai, and Leo Szilard. Among people deceased in 1978, Golda Meir ranks 3. Before her are Pope John Paul I, and Pope Paul VI. After her are Kurt Gödel, Aram Khachaturian, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Manne Siegbahn, Aldo Moro, Jacques Brel, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Giorgio de Chirico, and Robert Shaw.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Golda Meir ranks 5 out of 1,365. Before her are Leon Trotsky (1879), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Hurrem Sultan (1502), and Nikolai Gogol (1809). After her are Edgar de Wahl (1867), Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Golda Meir ranks 4. Before her are Leon Trotsky (1879), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), and Hurrem Sultan (1502). After her are Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stepan Bandera (1909), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), and Ivan Mazepa (1639).

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