Israel was born in 1900. Israel's father was Ziffer died when Israel was infant and his mother was Sara Pesel Soler. His paternal grandparents were Ziffer and <Unknown>. He was the second of three children. He had a brother and a sister, named Yona Eugeen and Ita. He had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Elie, Yehoshua and Chaya. He died, at the age of 73, in 1973.