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Life Story Of Jerusalem In 1939 Ade Yonath's Life
In Jerusalem in the year 1939 Ade Yonath was born. She lived in a shared rented four room apartment with 2 additional families. Most of her childhood was focused on her father who had a medical condition that kept him in and out of the hospital. It was because of that medical condition that she started to ask questions about the world around her. At the age of five she started actively investigating the world around her. In an effort to measure the height of the apartment she stacked chairs and tables. She then tired to climb this tower of furniture. This resulted in her falling and braking her arm.
Both of her parents studied Judaism mainly her father and her mother in household skills. Despite their current money situation her parents when


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