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December 2, 2019

Coffee with Golda Meir

A blend custom-made for the former prime minister lives on.

For more than ten years, the Atlas Coffee Shop in Tel Aviv has sold a special blend named “Golda,” after Israel’s fourth prime minister. The Raffaeli family, who have owned and operated Atlas for decades, inherited the recipe from Aaron and Mura Cohen when they retired and closed their own shop—where, once upon a time, Golda Meir had been a regular customer. To accommodate her preferences, the Cohens had begun roasting a new blend of coffee, as Karen Chernick writes:

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