A Woman Called Golda (1982) (TV)
Director: Alan Gibson.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman (Golda Meir), Ned Beatty (Sen. Durward), Franklin Cover (Hubert Humphrey), Judy Davis (Young Golda), Anne Jackson (Lou Kaddar/Narrator), Robert Loggia (Anwar Sadat), Leonard Nimoy (Morris Meyerson), Jack Thompson (Ariel), Bruce Boa (Macey), Anthony Bate (Sir Stuart Ross), Ron Berglas (Stampler), David de Keyser (David Ben-Gurion), Barry Foster (Wingate), Nigel Hawthorne (King Abdullah), Yossi Graber (Moshe Dayan)
Based on a four hour teleplay. Ingrid Bergman won an Emmy for her performance in this story of the life and times of Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister.
Historical Background:
1898 -- born Golda Mabovitz in Kiev, Russia.
1906 -- she and her family move to Milwaukee. She graduates from teachers' college and teaches in the public schools.
1915 -- she joins the Labor Zionist Party.
1917 -- she married Morris Meyerson.
1921 -- they settle in Kibbutz Merhavya (in then Palestine).
1924 -- they move to Tel Aviv (then Palestine). Children: Sarah and Menachem. She becomes an official of the Histadrut Trade Union; serves as a manager with the union's construction corporation, Solel Boneh.
1932-1934 -- as secretary of the Hechalutz women's organization, she works as an emissary in the US.
1939 -- she attends the Zionist Congress in Geneva to help protect European Jews. She is disappointed with the attitude of many of the Europeans.
1946 -- the British imprison most of the Jewish senior leadership; Golda replaces Moshe Sharett as the chief Jewish liaison with the British. She becomes a very successful fundraiser in the US to help cover the costs of the Israeli War of Independence.
1948 -- she takes part in the People's Council signing the vital proclamation establishing the State of Israel.
1948 June -- becomes Israel's Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
1949 -- gets elected to the Knesset as a party member of Mapai (Israeli Workers Party) .
1949-1956 -- she serves as Minister of Labor.
1951 -- her husband dies.
1956-1965 -- she serves as the Foreign Minister for Israel. She works with the cooperative agricultural and urban planning programs with Africa.
1956 -- she adopts the Hebrew name Meir (meaning "to burn brightly'').
1966-1968 -- when Mapai becomes part of the Israel Labor Party, she becomes Secretary General of the Mapai Party. Becomes the first SecretaryGeneral of the newly formed Labor Party.
1969 -- when Prime Minister Levi Eshkol dies, Meir (now 71 years old) becomes the prime minister.
1969 -- Labor Party nominates her to be Prime Minister of Israel. She wins.
1970 -- Egypt's Nasser dies. Anwar Sadat succeeds him.
1973 October 6 - start of the Yom Kippur War. After the war, the Agranant Inquiry Commission finds that the government seriously underestimated Arab intentions.
1973 December -- Labor Party wins the elections.
1974 June -- since she could not get her cabinet to agree on policies, she resigns in favor of Yitzhak Rabin.
1978 -- she dies.
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