Golda Meir Has Gone Down in History as Someone Who Rejected the Idea That There Was a Palestinian People at All, Yet Newly Disclosed Minutes Show That She Briefly Entertained the Notion of an Independent State Alongside Israel
Tehiya Bat Oren wrote the first feminist manifesto in Hebrew. Marcia Freedman, the Knesset’s only out lesbian, introduced abortion reforms. Both were born in North America and both died on the same day last month
Some 50 years ago, Druze poet Samih al-Qasim was indicted for not complying with state censorship rules before publishing a book of poems. Not all members of the Hebrew Writers Association agreed to act on his behalf. Finally, with Prime Minister Golda Meir's intervention, his trial was canceled