Thinkers and political figures
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Golda Meir
- Country
- Israel
- Era
- 1898–1978
- Tradition
- Labour Zionism
Israel’s only woman prime minister, who led the country through the Yom Kippur War and resigned over the failure to anticipate it.
01
Documented positions
Documented positions come from the sources listed. Similarity is this project’s inference from those positions, and is a much weaker claim.
- Led Israel through the 1973 Yom Kippur War and resigned in 1974 after the Agranat Commission’s findings
- Rejected the existence of a distinct Palestinian people as a political claim, a statement she repeated and defended
- Maintained the Labour Zionist economic settlement of strong unions, public ownership and social provision
- Built diplomatic and technical assistance relationships across newly independent African states as foreign minister
- Authorised the covert operation against those responsible for the Munich Olympics killings
- Refused territorial withdrawal from the areas occupied in 1967 without direct negotiation and recognition
02
Where it sits on each dimension
Wealth and inequality
24
RedistributionMarket outcomes
Evidence: Well documented
The state in the economy
26
Active stateLimited state
Evidence: Well documented
Tradition and change
60
ContinuityReform
Evidence: Documented
Nation and the world
88
InternationalistNationalist
Evidence: Well documented
Religion and the state
35
Secular stateReligion in public life
Evidence: Documented
Power and its limits
58
Concentrated authorityChecks and pluralism
Evidence: Documented
Dimensions left unscored, for want of evidence: Personal liberty, Environment and growth, Crime and punishment
Sources
- Golda Meir, My Life · 1975
- State of Israel, Agranat Commission Report · 1974
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