Reshef Levi

Reshef Levi (Hebrew: רשף לוי‎‎; born 1972) is an Israeli screenwriter, playwright, film director, producer, writer, comedian and television presenter. Winner of the Israeli Theatre Award and the Israeli Academy of Television Award. Levi is married with seven children and lives in Kfar Sava.

Reshef Levi is known for his successful debut feature film “Lost Islands”, which was nominated for 14 Ophir Awards by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television for outstanding cinematic work. In addition, Reshef Levi is a writer of one of the most popular television crime drama shows in Israel, “The Arbitrator” (Ha Borer). His last comedy film, “Hunting Elephants”, was made with the participation of Patrick Stewart.

Reshef Levi was born to a family of eight. His father was a journalist of Yemeni origin and a graduate of the Lehi undergraound, and his mother a former orthodox Jew,. In the army, Reshef Levi served in the Maglan, a special unit force and after his release was accepted to the Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students in the Tel Aviv University. After his brother Regev died of AIDS. Reshef began to add his late brother's name to each of his writing works, and he signs under the pen name "Reshef and Regev Levi" as a personal commemoration. Levi is also the brother of Israeli writer Yannets Levi.

In 1994, Reshef Levi began to write scenarios for comedian entertainment programs on television, while he still was in the army. His first works included comic shows like “Zehu Ze”, “Shemesh”, “Zahal 1” which described the army’s radio station, and “Halomot Behakizis”. In 2003, Reshef Levi wrote a scenario for “Hadmaot Shel Amsalem” (Tears of Amsalem), which described the life of a mobster whose father had to enter to a nursing home, but caused troubles there.

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