Born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1957, he lived in Israel for 25 years. He served at Tzahal as N.C.O. at the Artillery, including in the first Lebanon war (1982). He has a PhD in General Linguistics from the Sorbonne and the title of Professeur Agrégé d'Hébreu. He worked for 15 years as a freelance journalist at the dept. of Information, Kol Israel.