Boris Gelfand

Boris Abramovich Gelfand is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.

Boris Gelfand was born in Minsk, Belarussian SSR, onJune 1968. His parents, Abram and Nella, were engineers. His father bought him a book about chess, Journey to the Chess Kingdom, by Averbakh and Beilin, when he was five years old.

Source: Wikipedia