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Golda Meir was one of the founders of the State of Israel. She served as its Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and fourth Prime Minister.
Her family immigrated to Milwaukee from the Ukraine in 1906. Golda attended the Fourth Street School across from the Schlitz Brewing Complex and graduated from what is now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She taught in the public schools until immigrating to the Land of Israel in 1921.
On May 14, 1948 Golda Meir was one of twenty four people to sign the Declaration of the State of Israel. She became Prime Minister in 1969, and held the office before resigning in 1973. Golda later died of cancer at the age of 80 and was buried on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem.
