 In 1972, after almost 15 years of service, Hava and other members of the "Sea Fisheries Research Station" were given the option of continuing to work as civil servants for the Ministry of Agriculture or to merge with the private Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) center.The IOLR had been established by Israeli naval captain Yochai Bin-Nun in 1967, and quickly began to consolidate different branches of oceanographic research in Israel.Hava and her colleaues chose to join IOLR and work in the newly formalized National Institute for Oceanography.