Yoav J. Tenembaum, a journalist and political analyst, was born in Argentina, and has lived in various countries, including Israel, Argentina, the United States (New York), Britain and Spain.

He pursued his academic studies in Israel (B.A. in History at Tel Aviv University) and in Britain (Masters in International Relations at Cambridge University, and Doctorate in Modern History at the University of Oxford).

His children book The Planet of Mendaoor was published in Britain in 1995.

His poems have been published in the following literary magazines in the United States: ForPoetry, Tryst, Promise, Poetic Voices and Subtletea. Some of his poems have also been published in the Canadian-based A Little Archive of Poetry and in Above Ground Testing, also a Canadian-based literary magazine.