Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Ephraim Elimelech Urbach a Białystok, Poland, ga dangin Hasidic. Ya yi karatu a Roma da Breslau, inda ya karɓi aikin rabbinical. Ya yi hijira zuwa Mandatory Palestine a 1937. Ya yi aiki a matsayin malamin addini a rundunar sojojin Birtaniya a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II. Ya kuma shiga cikin yakin Isra'ila na 1948 na Independence
kuma daga baya ya yi aiki ga cibiyoyin ilimi da yawa kafin ya shiga jami'ar Hebrew University a 1953.