Isser Harel was born in 1912 in Vitebsk, Russian Empire as Isser Halperin. He was a writer, known for The House on Garibaldi Street (1979), Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War (1998) and World in Action (1963). He was married to Rivka Harel. He died on February 18, 2003 in Petah Tikva, Israel.