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Rothschild Boulevard.
Haifa, which was liberated by the
Hagana on Thursday, April 22, was
also well supplied. There the city's
chief rabbi authorized a historic dis-
pensation: During the holiday, he per-
mitted Jewish bakers to bake bread for
Arabs whose establishments were
closed.
The atmosphere in Jerusalem that
April had been captured in a recently-
published book called Letters From
Jerusalem 1947-1948 by Zipporah
Porath. A student at the Hebrew
University in the '40s, then a
Hagganah volunteer and later a nurse,
Porath faithfully chronicled, in letters
to her family in the United States, the
events of the year beginning in
October 1947.
Porath attended two seders 50 years
ago, both on the same evening. The
first was held in Rehavia and is
described in her book in a letter dated
April 24: She and her friend Yehuda,
who had invited her to the seder,
walked from her apartment in Kiryat
Moshe, "experiencing unexpected
quiet ... not a shot to be heard the
whole way."
As they walked, they greeted
"mutual friends, sang loudly and
waved to people on their balconies
waiting for guests."
As they neared the house to which
they were invited, they passed the resi-
dence of Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevi
Herzog, where a "thick security guard"
stood.
The night before, Rabbi Herzog
had broadcast a moving message over
the Hagganah radio. He addressed the
women and men in the armed forces
of the Yishuv as "makers of history"
and called upon them to draw courage
from the Passover festival while invok-
ing God's blessing upon them: "Go in
this your strength," he concluded,
"and redeem Israel forever."
It was a Sephardi seder. The reign-
ing matriarch was a grandmother
whose hand everyone kissed after
Kiddush. While the Haggadah was
recited in Hebrew, the important pas-
sages were reread in Ladino for her
benefit.
In Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea
She'arim neighborhood, 1948 was no
different than any other year. The
shmura matzah bakeries were in oper-
ation those first weeks of April —
somehow flour had been acquired or
saved for the holiday. A poster
announced that individuals could bake
their own matzah any time of day or
night in a nearby alleyway.
Residing in the Hamekasher neigh-
borhood were the Renovs and their
infant daughter. Both Bea and Jerry
Renov were from the American south,
she from Atlanta and he from
Shreveport, Louisiana. A Zionist
match, they married in 1945 after
Jerry got out of the Army Air Corps.
In the fall of 1946 they arrived in
Jerusalem to study at the Hebrew
University where Jerry could use his
GI Bill educational allotment. "We
had invited other Atlantans, Frieda
and Dave Macarov (now Professor
David Macarov), another couple and a
single fellow whom we had met at the
university. We each brought some-
thing so by pooling, we had special
fare for the seder."
Between the
third and fourth
cups of wine, the
phone rang. Back <
to battle.
Bea recalls the menu — "two car-
rots, some matzah, three potatoes,
wine and 100 grams of frozen meat."
The military outpost in Yemin
Moshe was the site of a dramatic seder
attended, among others, by an enter-
prising reporter named Malka Raymist.
After filing her last story on Friday
evening at the Public Information
Office just off King David Street, she
crossed over to a British sentry post,
had her pass checked and walked on
toward the windmill. At an
unmanned roadblock, she shouted
aloud, but when no one answered she
slid under the barbed wire.
Only then did a soldier appear to
check her pass and clear her entrance.
As they made their way through a
trench, they had to duck quickly
when shots whizzed by their heads.
Finally, after walking through
winding streets and through buildings
with large, gaping holes, she and her
escort got to the command post. After
quizzing her briefly, the commander
welcomed her. Arriving at the seder,
they saw a long table set with a white
tablecloth, matzos and flowers. There
were many bottles of wine, mostly
gifts from Jerusalem inhabitants to
the frontline Yemin Moshe neighbor-
hood.