Golda Meir was a Milwaukee schoolteacher who became Israel's fourth prime minister and led the country through the Yom Kippur War — the surprise attack that nearly destroyed the state she had helped build. She was called the "Iron Lady" before Thatcher claimed the title, and the intelligence failure that allowed the 1973 attack haunted her until her death, overshadowing decades of political achievement.

This episode traces Meir from her Kiev childhood through the Milwaukee labor activism, the pioneering years in Palestine, the fundraising that financed Israel's independence war, and the Yom Kippur crisis that ended her political career.

• Meir's childhood in Kiev and Milwaukee and the Zionist activism that took her to Palestine
• The fundraising tour that raised fifty million dollars for Israel's 1948 war — more than any dipl ...