Alex Levac

Alex Levac was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv

Alex Levac was born in Tel Aviv in 1944. His father, Moshe Levac, came to the Land of Israel in 1922 and opened a textile business. His father, an amateur photographer, gave him his first camera, a Brownie.

He studied at Tel Nordau school and Ironi Hey high school. In 1967 he completed studies in psychology and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He later studied photography in London.

In the 1970s he worked as a photographer in Brazil, London and Los Angeles, where he shot film stills. He exhibited photographs of Amazon Indians at Berkeley. In 1981 he returned to Israel and worked as a freelance photographer.

He became a staff photographer at the daily Hadashot. In 1984 his photo of the Bus 300 hijacking showed a hijacker alive in the hands of Shin Bet men, which set off the Bus 300 affair. From 1993 he worked at Haaretz, where he ran regular photo columns.

He published 5 books, including Tel Aviv Serenade with poems by Nathan Alterman. In 2010 he was dismissed from Haaretz but kept photographing for a weekly column there. He later moved to Moshav Tzofar in the Arava.