Complex sentence: Shamir was born Izrail Schmerler in Novosibirsk, Siberia in 1947, to Jewish parents and read mathematics and law at Novosibirsk University.
Split into simpler sentences: Shamir was born Izrail Schmerler in Novosibirsk, Siberia in 1947, to Jewish parents. According to Shamir, he read mathematics and law at Novosibirsk University.