Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun

 

"To promote the new tax, Golda stumped from factory to factory to the point of exhaustion, pressuring, cajoling, pleading, shouting, bullying, demanding in every way possible that the levy be paid...When some accused her of having a 'sadistic streak' and being 'against the workers' she tightened her lips, adjusted her face into a cold mask of indifference and pounded home her message. Unemployment caused a 'blot on the community and chiefly on the labor federation,' and they, the workers, must 'wipe out this shame.'"