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Golda's Balcony
Written by	William Gibson.
Subject	Golda Meir
Genre	Biographical

Golda's Balcony is a play by William Gibson.

It follows the trajectory of the life of Golda Meir from Russianimmigrant to Americanschoolteacher to a leader of international politics as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Much of its focus is on the period surrounding the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Israel's forces in the Golan Heights and Sinai were attacked by Egypt and Syria.

Gibson's drama suggests Meir threatened Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger with the launch of nuclear weapons against her enemies, conceivably starting World War III, unless the U.S. came to her country's aid.^[1][2][3]

Gibson first explored Meir in 1977 in his multi-character work Golda, which was produced on Broadway with Anne Bancroft in the title role.

Never fully satisfied with the piece, he decided to tackle the subject matter, this time in the fo