Surcharges ($35 per gold coin $10 per silver coin and $5 per half-dollar coin) will go to the American Friends of Kiryat Sanz Laniado Hospital. Mint to create up to 50,000 gold $5 coins, up to 400,000 silver $1 coins and up to 750,000 half-dollar coins honoring Meir. 987, the Prime Minister Golda Meir Commemorative Coin Act, which now has 39 co-sponsors. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) introduced H.R. voters named her Gallup’s “most admired woman” in 1971, 19. Meir graced the cover of Time magazine in 1969, and U.S. She signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948 and was elected to the Knesset, before serving as labor minister, foreign affairs minister, and finally, as prime minister from 1969 to 1974. In 1921, she and her husband, Morris Meyerson (she shortened her surname after moving to Israel), immigrated to British Mandatory Palestine, later serving as a delegate to the Zionist Organization and working as chief liaison to the British government during World War II. Meir’s family (she was born Golda Mabovitch) left Ukraine for Milwaukee when she was 8 years old. Credit: Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
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