I was born in Jerusalem in 1956, I graduated from high school next to the university (Lida) majoring in mathematics and physics. At the age of 18, I enlisted in the Air Force and in 1976 I completed the pilot's course majoring in helicopters. I met my wife Ora at the Air Force base where she served. In 1980 they got married and we had 4 children We are both graduates of the Technion in Haifa, Ora majoring in food engineering and biotechnology followed by industry and management and I in electrical engineering. We established our home in Moshav Beit Hillel in the Upper Galilee where we have lived for forty years and enjoy the village life and our five wonderful grandchildren (yes, many...).

In 1990, together with several colleagues, I founded the high-tech company OTI where we developed technologies that over time became leading products in the Israeli and global market. In 2007, while returning from a family trip to the USA, I noticed that my left hand was shaking, I immediately thought of Parkinson's. After many inquiries, my unprofessional diagnosis turned out to be correct.

All my life I have been used to dealing with changes and solving problems, and this is also how I treated Parkinson's disease. I continued in active reserve service until 2009, and in my job until 2012, when I decided to make a significant change and treat my health as the main occupation in my life.

For many years we have participated in challenging trips in Israel and around the world. Significantly, every time we were on the move on a challenging course my condition improved greatly. I set up a challenge course in my yard and there I practiced movement in unstable conditions on a daily basis. Ora and I made a video about Our struggle with Parkinson's. The clip was adopted by the association and is an inspiration to Parkinson's sufferers and their family members.

Following an extensive article in the Yom Kippur magazine of "Israel Hayom" and an article in the Arutz news edition "It's 11" Visits from Parkinson's patients who came to learn from my experience began. I consider helping people in mission situations and respond positively to any request to visit the contestants and talk with them. I advised them:Take your health in your hands even if they are shaking". The greatest of all was Shimon Bozgan of Nof HaGilil who read the article in which table tennis was mentioned as daily therapy. Shimon is the chairman of the TNS Sports Association of Nof HaGilil, at the top of the top league in the industry. He set himself the goal of promoting table tennis as a physical rehabilitation tool, mentally and socially and I adopted his I believe: "Table tennis restores the brain".

Together with TN coach Shahar Gilad and fitness and martial arts coach Yishai Korliker, I started training and getting stronger. Shimon convinced me to go to the World Championship for Parkinson's Challengers held by a global association.PingPongParkinson" where we are friends. In 2022, I decided to take up the gauntlet: in an accelerated process of 8 months and with the support of the Parkinson's Association in Israel, we established TN circles in the organization's branches, we held the first national championship for contestants from all over the country under the slogan:The power is in our hands", we participated in the World Championship in Croatia with good results, and ended the year 2022 with a hundred players in 15 branches and more hands down.

My goal is to transfer the responsibility for the quality of life and improving the physical, cognitive and social indicators of the Parkinson's contenders into their hands, and bring joy, a sense of achievement and satisfaction into their lives.