The “First Grandmother” of Israel toured the front lines along the Suez Canal yesterday. Premier Golda Meir visited Israeli troops in their bunkers and inspected armored corps units accompanied by Defense Minister Dayan, Chief of Staff Gen. Haim Bar-Lev, Gen. Yeshayahu Gavish, commander of the Southern Command, and Armored Corps commander Gen. Abraham Adan. Mrs. Meir, who will be 71 next month, talked with officers and men of the ranks. Later she told a Pioneer Women’s meeting in her honor here that she felt the soldiers were all “my own children and I know what responsibility I have when a decision is to be taken and these boys are involved.”
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