Uzi Weil

Uzi Weil is an Israeli author, a TV writer/creator of drama and comedy series, and a satirical columnist. He has published 10 books, most of them novels and short-story collections. His TV work is varied, and includes comedy shows and thriller-detective series, musicals and drama. He is also a playwright, a translator of American poetry, and for 10 years he has written Israel’s most controversial satirical newspaper column. Weil was born in 1964, in a small Kibbutz (an agricultural commune in Israel), but grew up in Tel-Aviv, which became the background to a lot of his work. He is married, with one grown-up child, and has never owned a car.