Dr. Meir Pinsk was born in Lithuania and at the age of six was deported to Siberia for thirteen years with his family. In 1971, he earned his doctorate in physics at St. Petersburg Pedagogical University. He worked in the Soviet Union as a researcher and lecturer in higher education. In 1979, Dr. Pinsk made aliyah to Israel, where he worked as a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later taught physics in high schools and colleges.