 He was a member of the TV Academy of independent producers, of the Israeli Film Institute and of the American Film Institute.His love for the Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian prompted him to create in 1994 the Mihail Sebastian Foundation and at the same time to obtain from Sebastian's family in Paris the nine hand-written notebooks that constituted Sebastian's diary of the fascist years, from 1935 to 1944.In the winter of 1994 he met in Paris Mr. Gabriel Liiceanu, the owner and president of the Publishing Co. Humanitas from Romania, and convinced him to publish the Sebastian's diary.