Frank Lowy has always pushed himself and, at 90, it’s no different. His day begins under a high-pressure shower of refrigerated water. Just before this bracing assault, he has swum a few laps, stretched and exercised as he watches the news on a big screen. Disciplines of a lifetime won’t allow him to linger in bed and an ambition to remain relevant drives him to get up early. But these days, there’s a new dimension to his routine.

As a boy, he watched his father pray every morning and now he, too, takes time to pause and do the same. At least once a month, his eldest son, David, flies from New York to Israel to spend a week with his father. When possible, Peter comes from Los Angeles and Steven from Sydney. Whenever one of his sons is with him, they pray together and with this, a sense of tradition continues.