Israel's Midwife: Golda Meir in the Closing Years of the British Mandate

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. See Meir Avizohar et al. (eds.), Golda: Growth of a Leader, Tel Aviv, 1994, pp. 169–234. See also Marie Syrkin, Golda Meir: Woman with a Cause, New York, 1961; Peggy Mann, Golda: The Life of Israel's Prime Minister, London, 1972; Ralph Martin, Golda: The Romantic Years, New York, 1988. 2. Yossi Goldstein, Eshkol: A Biography, Tel Aviv, 2003, pp. 260–263. 3. Palestine Post, 26 March 1946. For the full text of her testimony, see Azriel Karlibach, (ed.), The Anglos-American Commission of Inquiry, Tel Aviv, 1946, Vol. II, pp.473–485. 4. For details of ‘Black Saturday’ see Louise Fisher (ed.), Moshe Sharett: The Second Prime Minister, Jerusalem, 2007, pp. 285–298. 5. Rina and Yaacov Sharett (eds.), Imprisoned With Paper and Pencil, The Letters of Moshe and Zipporah Sharett during the period of his detention by the British in Latrun, Tel Aviv, 2000. 6. Hatsofe, 4 July 1946. 7. See Ilana Kaufman, ‘Political Activity on behalf of the National Institutions’, in Avizohar et al. (eds.), Golda: Growth of a Leader, pp. 200–205. 8. On the King David attack see Menachem Begin, The Revolt, Tel Aviv, 1974, pp. 295–316. 9. For the Morrison–Grady Plan see Gabriel Sheffer, Moshe Sharett: A Biography of a Moderate Leader, Oxford, 1996, pp. 192–218. 10. Kaufman, ‘Political Activities’, pp. 200–204, for the Paris meeting see Yossef Heller, ‘From Black Saturday to Partition’, Zion, Vol. 43, Nos. 3–4, 1979, pp. 114–161. 11. For the discussions in Mapai see protocols of Mapai secretariat, September 1946, Labour Party Archives, 26/46. 12. On the 11 settlements see Goldstein, Eshkol, pp. 264–268. 13. Protocols of the Twenty Second Zionist Congress, Jerusalem, 1947, pp. 90–96. 14. Golda Meir, My Life, New York, 1975, p. 112. 15. Meron Medzini, The Proud Jewess: Golda Meir and the Vision of Israel—A Political Biography, Jerusalem, 1990, p. 130. 16. Michael Bar-Zohar, Ben-Gurion, Tel Aviv, 1978, Vol. II, p. 661. 17. Yehuda Slutsky (ed.), History of the Haganah, Tel Aviv, 1972, Vol. III, p. 1195. 18. Kaufman, ‘Political Activities’, pp. 217–219; Medzini, The Proud Jewess, pp. 131–132. 19. For the first Golda–Abdullah meeting see her report, Central Zionist Archives, S25/4004, 20 November 1947. 20. For her activities in Jerusalem in December 1947 and January 1948 see Gedalya Yogev (ed.), Political and Diplomatic Documents, Jerusalem, 1980; and David Ben-Gurion, War Diary, Tel Aviv, 1982. 21. Menachem Meir, My Mother: Golda Meir, New York, 1983, p. 114. 22. For the full text of her speech see Marie Syrkin (ed.), Golda Meir Speaks Out, London, 1973, pp. 73–79. 23. Kaufman, ‘Political Activities’, pp. 221–222. 24. Details of her fund raising achievements are noted in Ben-Gurion, War Diary, pp. 107–371. 25. For Ben-Gurion's remarks see Meir Avizohar and Avi Bareli (eds.), Now Or Never: Mapai Discussions in the Last Year of The British Mandate, Beit Berl, 1989, pp. 377–381. 26. Meir, My Life, p. 113. 27. Avizohar and Bareli, Now Or Never, pp. 357–358. 28. For the feelings of the Political Department staffers see Political and Diplomatic Documents and Ben-Gurion's War Diary. 29. Yossef Almogi, Under the Burden of the Crossbar, Jerusalem, 1980, p. 79. 30. For the second Meir–Abdullah meeting see her report to the People's Administration, 12 May 1948; Zeev Sherf, Three Days, Tel Aviv, 1981, p. 63; and for the collusion theory see Avi Shlaim, Collusion Across the Jordan, New York, 1988. 31. Protocols of the People's Administration, 12 May 1948, pp. 80–110.