I was born and raised in Kibbutz Hazorea in the Jezreel Valley where I later graduated from Shomria high school at Mishmar HaEmek.

I worked in Hazorea’s Plastopil plastics factory as a shift manager for several years.

I served in the Signal Corps of the Israeli Air Force mostly in the Sinai, near the Suez Canal during the War of Attrition – 1967 to 1970.

I married Sara Brain who, after college, came from America to Israel as a volunteer. Together in 1973 we travelled extensively in Europe and later spent two and a half years in the States, where I worked in Market Research for Supermarkets General Corp. in New Jersey.

We came back to Israel in 1976 where I went to and I graduated from the Ministry of Tourism's tour guides course and have been showing my country to visitors since 1978.

My areas of interest and expertise include history, Middle East politics, Christian-Jewish dialogue, music and humor.