Early Life
Hanoch Levin was born in 1943 to Malka and Israel Levin, who immigrated to Palestine in 1935 from Łódź, Poland. He grew up in a religious home in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv. His father ran a grocery store.
As a child, he attended the Yavetz State Religious School. In the 1950s, his brother, David, who was nine years older than he was, worked as an assistant director at the Cameri Theater. His father died of a heart attack when he was 12 years old. Hanoch attended Zeitlin Religious High School in Tel Aviv. After ninth grade, he left school to help support the family. He 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. There he joined a drama club and acted in Michal, Daughter of Saul by Aharon Ashman.
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