Harry Zvi Tabor was born at London in 1917 to Charles and Rebecca Tabor. As a youth, he was involved in the UK branch of Habonim Dror, and participated in an 80th anniversary reunion in 2009. In 1947 he married Vivenne Landau. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of London and Hebrew University. He died in Jerusalem on December 15, 2015, at the age of 98.