Amichai Chasson

Amichai Chasson (also Amichai Hasson, Hebrew: עמיחי חסון; born 1987) is an Israeli poet, curator and filmmaker. Amichai Chasson born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1987 into an Orthodox Jewish family. His father from Tripoli, Libya, and his mother (granddaughter of Samuel S. Bloom) from New York City, United States. Chasson attended state-religious schools in Bnei Brak, and after high school he moved to the hesder yeshiva in Yeshivat Otniel. He studied at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School and the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem.He lives in Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem with his wife Dr. Miriam Chasson (the daughter of Author Emuna Elon and Rabbi Binyamin Elon, and sister of filmmaker Ori Elon). the couple have two sons and a daughter.