Yehuda Levi

Levi was born in Petah Tikva, Israel. His father Yerachmiel Levi was born in Bulgaria and his mother Chaya (née Lichtenstein) was born in Poland. At age four, their family moved to South Africa where his father worked at the time; a decade later, at age fourteen, they moved back to Israel. He graduated from the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts in Givatayim, Israel. During his Israel Defense Forces service, he was a commander of the military band of the Education Corps. He is an established actor, and came to the attention of the Israeli public through his soap opera roles. In 2002, he starred as a gay soldier in the Eytan Fox film, Yossi & Jagger. The film initially premiered on Israeli television and Levin won the Best Actor award from the Israeli Academy of Television. In May 2006, HaAlufa (The Champion), a soap opera centered on a soccer team, premiered starring Levi as the main character and captain of the team "Hakoakh Yerushalayim" (Jerusalem Power). In 2014 he began playing a famous celebrity called Yehuda Levi in the Hot TV series, A Very Important Man. He won two Best Actor awards from the Israeli Academy of Television for his performance in the role. He also played the lead role as a Mossad trainer in the Channel 2 series, Mossad 101 that began airing in 2015. In 2022, he starred as a Haredi rabbi in Rama Burshtein's television drama series, Fire Dance. For the role, he was awarded the Best Actor award for an international series at Series Mania in France in 2022. A year later, he starred alongside Rotem Sela in the Israeli surrogacy drama series, A Body that Works. The series was Israel's highest rated drama of 2023.