Michael Simkin was brought up in Eng­land, stud­ied lan­guages at Bris­tol Uni­veristy, then became a wan­der­ing Jew, trav­el­ling the world. These days, by night, he is a writer — he has writ­ten a cou­ple of books of poet­ry and a nov­el — that got on some Ama­zon best sell­er lists. By day, he is a free­lance mar­ket­ing con­sul­tant, liv­ing in a moshav in Emek Hefer. He has one son and a labrador.