During the Yom Kippur War, I worried about my husband and our friends after they joined their reserve units. Today, it is our children and grandchildren fighting.

'The blind trust that I had had in Israel’s leaders was gone, while my determination to build up the moshav and raise my family there was strengthened.'

That first moshav Seder in 1972 revealed the true origins of gefilte fish to this California-to-Israel transplant, inspiring her to take on the yearly preparation herself.