“Golda” frames Meir’s experiences as flashbacks during her testimony to the Agranat Commission of Inquiry, ... drawing the Yom Kippur War into the Cold War. ...

Meir feeds Kissinger borscht, and then gets to work. Schreiber’s Kissinger cautions her ” “Madame Prime Minister, in terms of our work together, I think it is important to remember I am first an ...

Another draw to the area was the Jewish garment worker sculpture just one avenue away. ... Golda Meir was born in Kyiv in 1898, but moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her family in 1906.

The biopic starring Helen Mirren shies away from the moral implications of Golda Meir’s decisions. ... 1973 was at best a draw, and could plausibly be spun as an Egyptian victory.

While Golda will, of course, attract great interest when it opens later this year in Israel, it is made so that it will draw international audiences who likely do not know much about either Meir ...

Golda Meir, the first and so far only woman prime minister of Israel, is a figure as shrouded in mythology as she is veiled by plumes of cigarette smoke in “Golda,” a new political drama starring ...

In ‘Golda’s Balcony,’ the ... But when it comes to a figure like the storied Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, ... Then, presumably, she’ll be able to more fully draw on the built-in ...

The biopic Golda stars Helen Mirren as Israel's first female prime minister, leading the country through the pivotal, 19-day Yom Kippur War in 1973. Its director says it's especially relevant today.

The Oscar-winning actor has faced criticism for playing Israel's first female PM Golda Meir in a new film. ... drawing on top secret government documents from the time of the war which have been ...

The historian and diplomat Deborah E. Lipstadt has a more complicated task in GOLDA MEIR: Israel’s Matriarch (Yale University, 271 pp., $26), a biography that considers the legacy of Israel’s ...

Golda shaves some edges off its subject matter — this is all about Meir, with any other perspectives kept to a minimum if not missing entirely. It’s chiefly about Meir’s tenacity and grief ...

The Oscar-winning actor has faced criticism for playing Israel's first female PM Golda Meir in a new film. ... drawing on top secret government documents from the time of the war which have been ...