After moving to Canada she formed half of the folksinging duo Malka and Joso with fellow singer Joso Spralja which is credited with bringing "ethnic" music to Canada for the first time [REF].
In 1999 Malka published Sulha, a novel set in the bedouin tents of the Sinai desert, Israel and Canada[REF] that chronicles the story of an Israeli war widow who while grieving for her husband must decide whether to allow her son to serve in the same air force [REF].