Golda Meir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on 17 March 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. She was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.^[2] David Ben-Gurion used to call her "the best man in the government."^[3] Meir was Israel's first female prime minister. She was the world's third female prime minister, but the first to hold this office without any prior family connection.^[4] Meir was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, gray-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people."^[3]