Biography
Who is Yehuda Levi?
Early life and education
Yehuda Levi was born in Petah Tikva, Israel. His father Yerachmiel was born in Bulgaria and his mother Chaya was born in Poland. The family moved to South Africa when Yehuda was four years old.
He lived in South Africa for ten years while his father worked there. He returned to Israel at age fourteen. He finished his studies at Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts in Givatayim.
Television and film career
Yehuda first gained public attention through roles in soap operas. In 2002, he played a gay soldier in the movie Yossi & Jagger. The film premiered on Israeli television and earned him a Best Actor prize from the Israeli Television Academy.
He played the captain of the Hakoakh Yerushalayim soccer team in the 2006 soap opera HaAlufa. This show centered on a soccer team. Later, he starred as Nadav Feldman in the crime series The Arbitrator from 2007 to 2014.
Recent roles and presenting
In 2015, he played a Mossad trainer in the Channel 2 series Mossad 101. He later appeared as a rabbi in the 2022 drama Fire Dance by Rama Burshtein. This part won him a Best Actor award at Series Mania in France in 2022.
He starred with Rotem Sela in the 2023 drama A Body That Works. This production focuses on surrogacy and became the highest rated drama in Israel for that year.
Family and relationships
Yehuda was in a relationship with model Yael Bar Zohar. They worked together on the soap opera Ramat Aviv Gimel. He later dated Ninet Tayeb from 2006 until 2013. Ninet Tayeb was the first winner of the show Kokhav Nolad.
In 2017, he married Israeli model Shlomit Malka. The couple lived in Tel Aviv before they announced their separation on June 6, 2021. Their marriage lasted four years.
Birthday and age
Yehuda Levi was born on June 29, 1979, which makes Yehuda 47 years old today. That birthday falls under the Cancer sign. Yehuda shares the date with 28 other famous people.
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