He was married in 1965 to the 54-year-old dancer and choreographer Pola Nireńska, a Polish Jew, whose family (with the exception of her parents, who emigrated to Israel shortly before the Nazi invasion of Poland), died in the Holocaust.
V roce 1965 se oženil se čtyřiapadesátiletou tanečnicí a choreografkou Polou Nirenskou, polskou Židovkou, jejíž rodina (kromě rodičů, kteří emigrovali do Izraele krátce před nacistickou invazí do Polska) zahynula během holokaustu.