In the winter of 1968, she met her future husband, Ehud Barak (then Brug),[1] at one of the libraries of the Hebrew University when Nava was a student studying English literature and Ehud was an officer with the rank of major who studied mathematics and physics.[2] She graduated with a B.A in English and Arabic literature and then worked as an English teacher in a middle school in Kfar Saba.