A look at Golda Meir in Milwaukee, before and during her time as leader of Israel

Golda Meir is shown at age 8, shortly after her arrival in the United States in 1905. Meir and her family left Russia and followed her father of America, where he had settled in Milwaukee and was working as a railroad carpenter. "I spent the first days in Milwaukee in a kind of trance," Meir later recalled.

Golda Meir, shown in the center of the back row, poses with friends in the Labor Zionist movement during a picnic at Lincoln Park in Milwaukee in 1917. The man to the immediate left of Meir is her future husband, Morris Meyerson.

Golda Meir and Morris Meyerson were married in December 1917 in Milwaukee. Morris died in 1952.

At right, Golda Meir, then known as Golda Myerson, visits Milwaukee as part of a Bonds for Israel fundraising drive on May 15, 1951. Meir spoke at the Schroeder Hotel and the Plankinton Hotel, both in downtown Milwaukee. She's shown with Ann Agulnick, citywide chairperson of the bond drive, and Robert Enzer, one of the local drive's directors.

Golda Meir, then Israel's foreign minister, speaks at a reception at Marietta House in Milwaukee on June 6, 1960. Meir stopped in her former hometown after receiving an honorary doctor of law degree earlier that day from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Golda Meir (second from left), in her first visit to the United States as prime minister of Israel, visits her Milwaukee alma mater, Fourth Street School, and is introduced by Principal Wayne Pool, left, to Milwaukee Aldermen Orville Pitts and Vel Phillips, at right, on Oct. 3, 1969.

Golda Meir talks with students at her Milwaukee alma mater, Fourth Street School, when the Israeli prime minister returned to the city she grew up in on Oct. 3, 1969. According to the Milwaukee Sentinel, the schoolchildren had spent weeks learning songs in Hebrew and Yiddish for Meir's visit at the school auditorium.

Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Richard P. Gousha presents Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir with a textbook, "Lights to Literature," during Meir's visit to Milwaukee's Fourth Street School on Oct. 3, 1969. The textbook was used at the time Meir was a student at the school; as a preteen, she helped form a group that provided school books for youngsters who could not purchase their own.

Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir reacts to a program presented by students at the Fourth Street School in Milwaukee on Oct. 3, 1969. Meir, who attended Fourth Street School when she was growing up in Milwaukee, wore a paper corsage given to her by the students."