هاجرت عائلة والدته في عام 1906 وولدت في القدس بينما هاجر والده إلى فلسطين من اليمن في عام 1939 عندما كانت تحت الانتداب البريطاني.
His mother's family immigrated in 1906 and she was born in Jerusalem, and his father immigrated to Israel from Yemen in 1939 when it was under the British Mandate.