 Between 1942-1944 the family managed to emigrate to Osh, Kyrgyzstan, where Hava completed secondary school in 1946.Only 17 years old, she and her family left Osh and snuck into the U.S.-occupied portion of divided Berlin, after which she began her education at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she studied analytical chemistry.After graduating in 1949, Hava boarded a ship and sailed across the Mediterranean to reach the newly established state of Israel.