Anda Harel-Dagan (née Andrée Wahba) was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1934, and immigrated to Israel with her family in 1949. She lived on a kibbutz and studied at the teachers’ college of the kibbutz movement (Seminar ha-Kibbutzim), Tel Aviv University, and the Sorbonne.

Harel-Dagan writes lyrical poetry. The themes of her first two volumes, Yamim Rabbim (Many Days - Tel Aviv: Sifriyyat Poʿalim, 1972) and  Avraham Hayah (Abraham Was - Tel Aviv: Ṭraklin, 1974)and the fourth, Minshar  (Sexpoems - Tel Aviv: Alef, 1986) include reflections about family, her father, nature, love…