Molly Lyons Bar-David

Molly Lyons Bar-David (also known as Malka Bar-David) was born in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Raised by Zionist parents, she shared her family’s dream of one day relocating to Israel. In 1936, at the age of 25, Bar-David and her sisters met their parents in the village of Gan HaSharon, Israel, where they quickly joined the Haganah and learned to protect their new home from the Arab Revolt. Bar-David put her literary skills to use by recording her wartime …