Sara Manobla was born Ursula Sara Towb in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Her grandfather David Towb immigrated to Britain from Zagare in 1890. After receiving her BA (Honors) from Durham University, she joined the BBC s World Service as producer of foreign language radio broadcasts. After her first visit to Israel in 1960, she made aliyah and settled in Jerusalem. She married Eli Manobla, a Jerusalem-born architect and artist, and they had three children. She continued her broadcasting career as head of Israel Radio s English Department. With her family, she spent two years in Vancouver, Canada, as director of the Canadian Zionist Federation s Pacific Region office. She was editor of the magazine Panim, a monthly survey of the arts scene in Israel, published by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She contributes travel articles to the Jerusalem Post and does freelance translating and editing. Her chief passions in life apart from her family are travel and music. She is a composer as well as a proficient musician, playing piano, cello and flute in amateur chamber groups and orchestras.