I was born in 1984 in Haifa, Israel, and have since moved to Hadera. I served in the IDF as an artillery battalion's telecommunications platoon sergeant, and then proceeded to complete an M.Sc. in mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, doing a machine learning thesis under the supervision of Boaz Nadler. After that (in 2009) I started working as the head of research of the internet startup SimilarGroup, in which I have since moved to a 20%-time position.

In April 2011 I have started a test run of Bitcoil, a service for exchanging bitcoins for ILS in Israel, and it was officially launched in August 2011. It is still the best method for people in Israel to buy or sell small to medium amounts of bitcoins, with many satisfied customers. Lately the monthly volume of trades has been about 500K ILS, and my largest single transaction was for 40K ILS.

I am the founder and organizer of the Israel Bitcoin Meetup Group, hosting regular events about once per 2 months. These have evolved from 3 people meeting at a cafe to lecture-filled events with 160 attendees, with bigger plans for the future.

I am a co-founder and the main content contributor of the community site http://www.bitcoin.org.il/, and an admin of theFacebook page and IRC channel.

I have written Hebrew translations of bitcoin-qt and of Satoshi's whitepaper.

I'm giving talks and interviews to any interested parties, including Oracle, the Haifa Linux Club and the channel 10 program "Layla Calcali".