[2] She taught in the Orthodox Bais Yaakov (Beth Jacob) school system in Azor, southeast of Tel Aviv.

[2] Semer began working as a night editor for a German-language Israeli newspaper, Yediot HaYom in 1950.

She advanced to become Davar’s assistant editor, and in 1970 became its Editor-in-Chief, which at the time was the most senior position held by a woman in Israeli media.

[2][6][8] God Doesn't Live Here Anymore is about her return visit to the Ravensbrück concentration camp: On my travels abroad, and especially my trips to Germany, I am very careful not to eat treif.

I would have eaten steak with cheese to take revenge on God for the deaths of my aunts and cousins, who counted the days of their niddah time according to the law, separated hallah from the dough, ran to the dayyan with questions about a spot on a slaughtered goose, and read from the Ze’enah U-Re’enah every free moment—and their reward was to be humiliated to the dust and tortured until they perished.