She has spent her days and nights putting her mothering and daughtering hands to healing her own children and her own parents at home.

She had dozens of ways to make something ‘do’ for another week or month. Skillful with a needle, she could darn and re- darn our socks without making the heel or toe uncomfortably thick

The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.

Second, secular socialist Zionism, the dominant ideal of Israeli society in its formative years, experienced difficulties in transmitting its pioneering ethos and its antimaterialistic ideology to an increasingly consumer-oriented society.