14 Facts About Hagai Levi

Hagai Levi is an Israeli television creator, writer, director, and producer.

Hagai Levi studied psychology at Bar-Ilan University but left to complete his mandatory military service.

Hagai Levi practiced Orthodox Judaism but became less religious while completing his military service.

Hagai Levi later created and co-produced the anthology series Short Stories about Love, which twice won the Israeli Academy Award for best drama.

Hagai Levi directed and co-created the medical drama series 101 ; co-created and co-produced the daily drama Love Around the Corner, and directed and co-wrote the TV single drama Premiere.

Hagai Levi wrote for the drama series Shabatot Vehagim and served as a show runner of some telenovelas.

Hagai Levi was a film critic for various newspapers for ten years during his period, as well as a lecturer in the leading film schools in Israel, and was the head of the drama department in the leading Israeli TV channel Keshet.

Hagai Levi is known for creating, directing and producing the television drama BeTipul and for producing and co-directing In Treatment, HBO's American adaptation of the show.

Hagai Levi served as an executive producer and consultant in most of these adaptations.

Hagai Levi won the Ophir Award for producing BeTipul, and along with Nir Bergman, he won the Israeli Academy's Best Director award for directing the series.

In 2013 Hagai Levi created and directed the Israeli television mini-series The Accursed.

Hagai Levi produced several award-winning documentaries, among them It Kinda Scares Me and Aviv, both directed by Tomer Heymann, and served as a story and script editor for numerous Israeli drama series.

Hagai Levi won a Golden Globe Award for co-creating and co-producing the television drama The Affair with Sarah Treem.

In 2021, Hagai Levi wrote, co-produced and directed Scenes from a Marriage, an American drama television for HBO starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain.