Yaacov Kaufman was born and lived in Poland until 1957 and then immigrated to Israel. He graduated from the Bat-Yam Art Institute, Sculpture department and became a lecturer in Industrial Design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.
He carried out projects in collaboration with Tecno, arflex, Lumina Italiana, Seccose, Porro, Edizioni Galleria Colombari, etc. In 1989 he won the Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum, for research and development in industrial design. Some of his works are presented in international exhibitions such as: Neste Group Exhibition at Design Center, London and ICSID Amsterdam; Forum Design 1988, Milan; Design et Mutations Technique du Meubles Italien, Paris; Sitz-Avantguarde, Nordrhein Westfalen; Forma & Funzione, London. Works in museum collections: Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The Design Museum, London.
In 1987 he published the book "Chair" published by the Bezalel Academy for Art & Design.