Hagai Levi

Hagai Levi was born in 1963 in Sha'alvim

Levi was born on 2 July 1963 and grew up in Kibbutz Sha'alvim in a religious family. He was the eldest of 6 siblings. His younger brother Yishai was killed in a battle near the Beaufort in Lebanon in January 1990.

During his military service in the early part of that decade, he left religious life and left the kibbutz. He studied psychology and philosophy at Bar-Ilan University and film and television at Tel Aviv University.

He worked as a film critic for several newspapers until 2003 and taught film. In 1993 he wrote and directed his first feature film, August Snow. He later created the anthology series Short Stories about Love and headed the drama department at Keshet.

In 2005 he co-created BeTipul, which HBO adapted as In Treatment, with Levi as executive producer. In 2014 he co-created The Affair with Sarah Treem and won a Golden Globe in 2015.

He co-created Our Boys for HBO, which premiered in 2019. In 2021 he wrote and directed Scenes from a Marriage for HBO.