Lindsay Toledano was born and raised in London in a secular, Zionist family. Her father was responsible for the Hannah Szenes diaries being published in English; which she wrote about in another piece on The Blogs. She worked as an actress before getting married in 1975 and moving to Paris, followed by several years in New York and Los Angeles. She is the mother of two children, a writer, and has lived in Israel since 1995.