Abba Eban was born on February 2, 1915 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was a writer, known for Drei Wochen in Jerusalem (1991), Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (1984) and Ben Gurion Zoher (1972). He was married to Shoshana (Suzy) Ambache. He died on November 17, 2002 in Tel Aviv, Israel.