Michael Gendelev. Poet. Born in 1950 in Leningrad. He graduated from the medical Institute. In the early 1970s, is listed by the Leningrad uncensored poetry. Since 1977 he has lived in Israel, was a doctor (including the military), journalist, political technologist. The author of seven books of poetry (and released in 2003 Collected Poems), a book of prose, numerous translations of classical and modern Hebrew poetry. One of the founders of the concept of the Russian-language literature of Israel.