Abra­ham Rabi­novich was born in New York City and worked as a reporter at News­day and oth­er news­pa­pers. He arrived in Jerusalem on the eve of the Six Day War and sub­se­quent­ly set­tled in Israel, work­ing as a fea­ture writer for The Jerusalem Post and a cor­re­spon­dent for for­eign newspapers.