Early Life
Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi was born, on the 8 January 1933, into a Jewish family in London, England, where he continues to live and work, along with his wife, Rebekah. On his father's side of the family, he descends from a rabbinical Sephardi line with roots in Bessarabia which was, at the turn of the C20th, a province of Russia. On his mother's side, he is descended from a Polish Ashkenazi family. His Ashkenazi great-grandfather was Zerah Barnet, who helped found the Orthodox Meah Shearim district, just outside the Old City of Jerusalem, and a Hebrew yeshiva in Jaffa. He currently lives in London with his wife, Rebekah.
He attended St Martin's School of Art and the Royal Academy, studying painting during his time there. After college his jobs included working in general and psychiatric hospitals, as well as in a theatre workshop and at the Royal Opera House. Besides theatre work and practising graphic design, he also taught at RADA and the Architectural Association. He ran workshops for the Wrekin Trust and has lectured at the Theosophical Society, the Royal College of Art and the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture.
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