Lavi (Arie) Zilberstein Author works Biography Author works Birkat Ha’Bait Parchment (calf skin), ink, gold, 29x39 cm, 2014. Biography In 1992 he received a certificate of a sofer from the ‘Mishmeret Stam’ Higher Collegium of Sofers of Israel. In 1996 he became the first sofer in the Israel Defence Forces. In 2006 - the chief sofer of the Russian Federation.