 As was put out in 2006 by "Channel A" (the national Israeli radio broadcasts), Ben-Shahar was discovered at early childhood as a gifted child and was invited to attend university courses when he was only 10 years old.He began his own writing at the age of 11, while at the age of 13 he started to publish a series of articles in the Israeli journal "Computer World".It was only revealed in the past few years that "Computer World" agreed to disclose his real age to the public only 2 years after he started his work with them.