An Unlikely Hero Emerges on the Battlefields of Ukraine — And She Made a Mean Chicken Soup

It turns out that Golda Meir’s Zionist writings, quips, and observations about how to conduct life under constant threat of war are passed around and widely quoted in Ukraine.

Golda Meir at the White House with President Nixon in 1969. Moshe Milner via Wikimedia Commons

It might have come as a shock to the urbane sages of MSNBC — as it seemed to — but in an interview with the network yesterday an official in Kiev cited none other than Golda Meir as an emerging heroine of the Ukrainian people. 

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