Born in Berdychiv in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), Berman emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1920.

In 1950 he began work as the legal advisor of the Kaiser-Fraizier Factory in Haifa, becoming Director General by the time he left in 1954.

In 1974 he became chairman of the party's national secretariat,[3] and in 1977 elections was voted into the Knesset on the list of Likud (of which the General Zionists had become a faction).

However, he resigned from the post on 30 September 1982 due to the government's attitude towards the Kahan Commission, which was investigating the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

After turning 100 in June 2013,[4] he died in Tel Aviv on 4 August 2013 and was buried at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.