 Golda Meir was
born in Kiev, Russia and was brought to
Milwaukee as a child. She settled in Palestine
in 1921, where she was active in Labor
Zionism. She held important posts in the
Histadrut and then in the Israeli government.
She became Israel's first female Prime
Minister in 1969. She traveled to America
often to raise funds and promote awareness of
Israel.
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Golda Meir House]
In Memory of
Esther Cohn Strauss
Esther Cohen
Strauss and her late husband, Mel Cohen, were
so dedicated to preserving a Denver home where
Golda Meir once lived that they once slept all
night on the floor to protect it from vandals.
"Someone had broken some windows and sprayed
swastikas on it," said Mrs. Strauss' daughter,
Debra L. Ehr, of Mineral Point, Wis. "So my
mom and Mel guarded it."
Mrs. Strauss,
who worked 19 years to save the house where
the late Israeli prime minister once lived,
died July 28 2004 of cancer. She was 66. |
