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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.