Biography
The son of Gail and Professor Aryeh Levin, an Israel Prize laureate for general linguistics, Levin graduated from Boyar High School in Jerusalem. He served in the I.D.F Intelligence Corps as a translator from Arabic to Hebrew and later served as commander of an Arabic translations course. He has an L.L.B from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked as a lawyer in the field of civil-commercial law.
Levin is the author of a Dictionary of Economic Terms, Hebrew-Arabic-English, Arabic-Hebrew-English, English-Arabic-Hebrew, published in 1995 by Keset Publishing. The dictionary received the Intelligence Corps Prize for work in the field of translation.
His mother's uncle, Eliyahu Lankin, was commander of the Altalena ship and member of the first Knesset representing the Herut Party. Levin's Sandak at his circumcision ceremony was Menachem Begin. He is married to Yifat, daughter of former Member of Knesset Yaakov Shamay. They have three children.
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