Helen Mirren. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren will star as Israel’s only female prime minister Golda Meir in the new biopic “Golda,” it was announced on Tuesday.
The feature film will focus on the decisions made by Meir, while surrounded by the infighting from her all-male cabinet, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Egypt, Syria, and Jordan launched a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.
Known as the “Iron Lady of Israel,” Meir was the world’s fourth and Israel’s first and only woman to hold the position of prime minister, as well as the first of any country in the Middle East. She died in 1978 of lymphoma, four years after leaving office.
Golda taps Helen Mirren to play titular Israeli leader
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