Israel Maurice Edelman (2 March 1911 – 14 December 1975) was a British Labour Party politician, journalist, and novelist from Wales who represented Coventry constituencies in the House of Commons for over 30 years, from 1945 until his death.

[1] His parents had come to Wales seven years earlier, escaping the pogroms in Tsarist Russia.

[3] He was educated at Cardiff High School[1] and Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where he was an Exhibitioner in Modern Languages (French, German and later Russian).

[2] His non-fiction works include France: The Birth of the Fourth Republic,[1] and a biography of David Ben Gurion.

[3] Following further boundary changes in 1974, Edelman represented Coventry North West until his death, from an embolism, at Royal Brompton Hospital on 14 December 1975.