Harold Irving Schechner was born in 1936. He was a ladies’ hairdresser in England. He came to live in Israel in 1984. For 16 years he worked as an emissary for a medical company in Israel.
He is happily married to Jeannette for 59 years. The have three children and eight grown-up grandchildren, three of whom are currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).