Yom Kippur War Golda Meir

To golda meir however it was nixon whom she considered to be israel s staunchest friend and israel s savior during the yom kippur war 13.

Yom kippur war golda meir. Forty years after the yom kippur war which traumatized a generation of israelis and left more than 2 500 israeli soldiers dead the defense ministry released details of prime minister golda meir. Facts about the yom kippur war. Born in kyiv ukraine she emigrated to the united states as a child with her family in 1906 and was educated there becoming a teacher after marrying she and her husband emigrated to then palestine in 1921 settling on a. It opened with the chilling sentence.

Golda meir born golda mabovitch. Br consequently israel s chief of staff david elazar military intelligence chief eli zeira defense minister moshe dayan and finally prime minister golda meir all resigned. But secret government files reveal that while the war hero moshe dayan considered surrender. This time the effort was successful and the war came to an end.

The war known to israelis as the yom kippur war and to arabs as the. Egyptian president anwar sadat right next to his successor hosni mubarak moments before sadat s assassination cairo october 6 1981. Then prime minister golda meir with southern command chief gen. Shmuel gonen during the 1973 yom kippur war visiting an idf command post in the sinai desert.

Golda meir s leadership in the yom kippur war 51 sent by zamir from london. The egyptian army and the syrian army are about to launch an attack on israel on saturday 6 10 73 in the early evening highly detailed information followed about the war plans of the two armies 2 this was the beginning. Kissinger s reputation continued to take on a shade of gray as the years passed. Israel had some warning that an attack was coming.

Prime minister golda meir minister of defense moshe dayan and chief of general staff david elazar met at 8 05 am on the morning of yom kippur six hours before the war began. Some israeli generals wanted to strike first but golda meir refused to attack first as she was worried israel would lose the support of the united states. May 3 1898 december 8 1978 was an israeli teacher kibbutznik stateswoman politician and the fourth prime minister of israel.