15 Facts About Hanoch Levin

Hanoch Levin was an Israeli dramatist, theater director, author and poet, best known for his plays.

Hanoch Levin grew up in a religious Jewish home in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv.

Hanoch Levin's father died of a heart attack when he was 12 years old.

Hanoch Levin worked as a messenger boy for the Herut company and took classes at a night school for working youth at the Ironi Aleph middle school.

Hanoch Levin was married twice, to Naava Koresh and Edna Koren.

Hanoch Levin continued to work even in the hospital, nearly to his last day, but didn't have time to finish the staging of his play The Crybabies.

In 1967, Hanoch Levin published a poem called "Birkot ha-Shahar" in the literary journal Yochani, and was met with critical acclaim.

Also in 1967, Hanoch Levin sent a radio play called Catch the Spy to a radio drama competition at Kol Israel, winning first prize.

The criticism directed at Hanoch Levin following You, and Me and the Next War and Ketchup deepened after the premiere of his third political play, Queen of a Bathtub, produced by the Cameri Theater in April 1970.

Hanoch Levin achieved his first great public success with his next comedy, Hefez, which was mounted on the stage of the Haifa Theater in March 1972, directed by Oded Kotler.

Hanoch Levin returned to political writing in The Patriot, which opened October 1982 at the Neve Zedek Theater, directed by Oded Kotler.

Nurit Yaari divides Hanoch Levin's plays into three general categories, based on their themes, characters and theatrical forms:.

In 1994, Hanoch Levin was the co-recipient of the Bialik Prize for literature.

Hanoch Levin's death brought new interest in his early stage works.

In 2000, the musician Dudi Levi released the disk Hanoch Levin Project, comprising eleven songs whose words Hanoch Levin composed.