Golda Meir — prime minister with roots in the Russian Empire
Golda Meir served as Israel's fourth Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974, the first woman to hold the office. Born in Kyiv, she became a foundational architect of Israeli statehood and led the nation through the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
"Emigrated from Kyiv via Pinsk to Milwaukee, USA, in 1906 to escape Russian Empire pogroms."
Migration storyTracing the roots — Kyiv (Ukraine)
Born Golda Mabovitch in Kyiv in 1898 under the Russian Empire, she grew up amid pogroms that shaped her fierce Zionism. Russian was her first language; the violence she witnessed as a child in Ukraine became the moral engine of her political life.
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Kyiv (Ukraine). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
""I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.""