His great-uncle Joseph Klausner was the Herut party candidate for the presidency against Chaim Weizmann and was chair of the Hebrew literature department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Njegov ujak Joseph Klausner bio je kandidat Herut stranke u predsjedničkoj kampanji protiv Chaim Weizmanna, a bio je i predsjednik hebrejskog književnog društva na Hebrejskom sveučilištu u Jerusalemu.