She is best known for her music career as part of the folksinging duo Malka & Joso in the 1960s, her radio documentaries, and more recently her novel Sulha (1999)[1] and book Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words (2014).
[2] During her teens Malka participated in the folk dancing and singing Dalia Festival, and was an actress in the first film made in Israel, A Village Tale which is housed in Stephen Spielberg's archives.
[citation needed] Malka continued to work for CBC producing radio documentaries including: The Bite of the Big Apple (following the Broadway run of the play Kronberg: 1582 and winner of the ACTRA Award in 1977).
[7][8] She also did a series of shows profiling musicians, singers and poets; such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen[9] In 1999 Malka published Sulha, a novel set in the Bedouin tents of the Sinai desert, Israel and Canada[10] 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.
[11] More recently she published Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, a narrative based on a series of interviews conducted with the singer over four decades[12][13] Publications: Documentaries: Music: