<p>This study examined how mothers and grandmothers living in one community along the border with Gaza built their sense of coherence in times of quiet and of military confrontation. Fifteen mothers and fifteen grandmothers from different families participated in semi-structured interviews. Comparative content analysis revealed that all the mothers built their sense of coherence in four domains: (a) comprehensibility at the community level of the kibbutz; (b) managing at the location level (living along the border); (c) managing at the family level of belonging; and (d) emotional personal processing (resilience). The main differences between the generations were: (a) mothers mentioned the location as a place they had to leave when it became too dangerous, whereas grandmothers regarded the location as never to be abandoned; (b) mothers mentioned the kibbutz as a community that needed social boundaries, whereas grandmothers regarded it as the source of the deficiencies of their motherhood; (c) mothers built their personal resilience through a sense of control over their lives, whereas grandmothers did so by disavowing fear; and (d) mothers regarded the family as a source of security and help, whereas grandmothers considered it to be the object of giving and belonging. This multi-generational observation of motherhood in a unique and stressful environment created a conceptual understanding of ecological coherence and offered recommendations for practitioners working in multigenerational communities.</p>