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Golda Meir

Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
June 16, 2023, 10:46 pm
Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir biopic gets US release date
Movie by Oscar-winning Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv will begin playing in theaters on August 24
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Golda Meir, Israel's prime minister from 1983-1984, 1969-1974, as envisioned in Gavin Rain's artwork, part of the Prime Ministers in Perspective exhibit at Jerusalem's Biennale Gallery, April 23, 2023 through May 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Clive Hassel/Reproduction of Artists Works for Brandsmiths and Myron Zeidel)
April 24, 2023, 11:40 pm
Artist connects the dots for a new look at Israel’s leaders
Exhibit of 12 neo-pointillist portraits of prime ministers offers fresh perspectives for Israel’s 75th, at Jerusalem Biennale Gallery in old Shaare Zedek building
By Jessica Steinberg
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
February 23, 2023, 10:49 am
Golda Meir biopic skirts politics as current government faces growing scrutiny
Star Helen Mirren says legendary former PM ‘would have been utterly horrified’ at legal overhaul, calls it ‘the rise of dictatorship’
By Gabe Friedman
Israeli director Guy Nattiv and English actor Helen Mirren (R) attend a photocall for the film "Golda," at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 20, 2023 in Berlin. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
February 21, 2023, 4:56 pm
‘Golda’ director defends casting Helen Mirren: ‘She’s got the Jewish chops’
At Berlin film festival premiere, Guy Nattiv says he was ‘surprised’ by uproar over decision to pick non-Jewish actress for star role
By Deborah Cole
British actress Helen Mirren arrives on the red carpet ahead of the premiere of the film 'Golda,' at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 20, 2023 in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)
February 21, 2023, 4:56 pm
‘Golda’ star Helen Mirren says ex-PM would be ‘horrified’ by Israeli politics today
At Berlin film festival for biopic’s premiere, British actress says government’s efforts to upend Israel’s judicial system mark ‘the rise of dictatorship’
By Deborah Cole
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
February 18, 2023, 9:04 am
‘Helen became her on a spiritual and cellular level’; 1st clip released from ‘Golda’
Mirren ‘adds a brilliant layer of soul, wisdom, humor and courage to the character of Golda,’ says director Guy Nattiv amid controversy over casting
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 13, 2023, 11:53 pm
Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren to debut at Berlin festival
‘Golda’ to be screened to audience for first time next month, after decision to cast non-Jewish actress in lead role generated controversy
By AFP
Zalman Shazar, Golda Meir, David Ben Gurion and Giora Josephtal at a Labor party conference in Tel Aviv on April 8, 1959. (Hans Pinn/GPO)
September 7, 2022, 2:14 am
Biography revisits the life of Golda Meir, the anti-feminist feminist leader
Author Pnina Lahav’s ‘The Only Woman in the Room’ examines the career of Israel’s fourth prime minister by exploring how being a woman shaped — or twisted — her path
By Amy Spiro
Students carry a mock coffin as they hold a symbolic funeral for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, at al-Azhar University in Mughraqa, central Gaza Strip, May 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
September 6, 2022, 2:07 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 6: IDF releases Abu Akleh report; was PM Golda Meir a feminist?
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian updates us on a recent shooting of soldiers in Jordan Valley and gives a preview of next IDF chief of staff; news editor Amy Spiro on ‘Mo’ and more
By ToI Staff
A Ukrainian officer shows off a biography of Golda Meir that he carries into battle with him. (Screen capture: Twitter)
March 10, 2022, 10:11 am
Kyiv-born Golda Meir becomes a symbol of hope for Ukrainians
Israel’s fourth premier is an icon among Ukrainian leaders eager to claim her as a native daughter
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 13, 2022, 7:24 pm
Golda Meir’s grandson defends casting of Helen Mirren as former Israeli PM
Shaul Rahabi tells Jewish Chronicle his late grandmother would have loved casting, and being Jewish ‘doesn’t matter at all,’ amid renewed ‘Jewface’ debate
By ToI Staff
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 6, 2022, 11:27 am
Casting of Helen Mirren as Israeli PM Golda Meir sparks ‘Jewface’ spat
Famed British actress Maureen Lipman says Jewishness of character is integral; others say actors should be allowed to act
By ToI Staff
Left, Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' Right, then prime minister Golda Meir at the Israeli Embassy in Rome, January 15, 1973. (Jasper Wolf; AP Photo/Giuseppe Anastasi)
November 17, 2021, 8:01 pm
First look at Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in upcoming biopic
Academy Award winner to portray Israel’s only female PM in feature-length movie ‘Golda’ set during turbulent Yom Kippur War period
By ToI Staff
Then-prime minister Golda Meir speaks at a press conference during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in an undated photograph. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Defense Ministry Archive)
October 8, 2021, 3:49 pm
World will ‘throw us to the dogs’: Yom Kippur War papers reveal Golda’s despair
48 years on, declassified papers show PM Meir feared abandon by int’l community: ‘They don’t like Jews, let alone weak Jews’; State Archive publishes 1,300 pages of transcripts
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli actress Shira Haas receives the prize for Best Supporting Actress at the 2018 Ophir Awards, sometimes called the Israeli Oscars, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, September 6, 2018. (Flash90)
June 27, 2021, 2:38 pm
Haas recalls excitement when Streisand offered her part of Golda
Award-winning Israeli actress will portray Israel’s only female prime minister in the upcoming TV series ‘Lioness’ produced by Hollywood icon
By ToI Staff and JTA
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