I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.