Golda Meir's Responsibility (Character Trait)
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Responsibility
Golda Meir, best known as Israel's Third Prime Minister, has plenty of experience with responsibility. Throughout her whole life she has been in a position with an adequate amount of responsibility. She studied through and graduated from teachers' college and taught in public schools when she and her family emigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She seems to always be in a position of authority and eventually climbed to the top of the ladder in Israel.
Meir was always a leading socialist Zionist during her lifetime. She was elected to the woman's labor council of Histradrut in 1928 and was chosen secretary of Histadrut's executive committee in 1934. In the 1930's, she was also an international Zionist representative, and as such spent a year in the United States in 1932. In 1946, she became president of the political bureau of the Jewish Agency. Her Jewish idealism combined with her Zionist determination lead her to move to the ranks of the Israeli government.
After 1948, she was Israel's minister to Moscow, labor minister, and, from 1956 to 1966, foreign minister...