On Friday, Oct. 6, my younger sister, Keren, turned 50. She was born on the first day of the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s fifth war since it was founded in 1948. I was two years old when that war broke out, and on that day my father, like all the other men, was called to the army. I was left with a neighbor while my mother went alone to the hospital to give birth to my sister. I don’t remember much from that war, except for my mother returning with my baby sister.

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Persons: Keren Locations: Israel