I just read Nextbook's account of the TV super-special ABC ran for Israel's 30th birthday, which included a live video conference between Barbra Streisand and Golda Meir.
Golda Meir was a Ukrainian-born American woman who moved to Israel and eventually became its fourth prime minister at an advanced age. I had always assumed she must have really "Israelified" herself because she changed her name (formerly Meyerson) and made it into the top office.
On Independence Day, the national satire TV program Eretz Nehederet (A wonderful country) broadcast spoofs of what the show might have looked like through the years. They played a section from 1973, on the night before Egypt and Syria surprise attacked Israel in the Yom Kippur War. They had Golda Meir speaking Hebrew in a thick American accent. If you read Hebrew and have the patience to watch to the 9-minute cast, including references to the Israeli version of Survivor, it's here.
Naturally I went on Youtube to dig up old clips of Meir speaking Hebrew. Here she's talking about the pity of national television satiring the Minister of Finance.
In the second clip she is talking about bringing the first record player to Israel.
I also went into Ben Gurion's clips - and he speaks with a heavy Russian accent. I found it very funny to see these freshly minted immigrants-turned-prime ministers.
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