Born on 08.10.1934 in Kelme. Died 13 03 2014 in Tel Aviv.
In the summer of 1941, his parents were shot, but he survived, growing up in a family of Samogitian peasants. In 1958 he graduated from Kaunas Polytechnic Institute (now Kaunas University of Technology). In 1972 he emigrated to Israel. His works have been translated into Estonian, Yiddish, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Latvian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Georgian, Polish, Bulgarian, Czech, Hebrew, Tajik, English, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish.