Yoav Levitas Halevy

Yoav Levitas Halevy (1939–2019, born and lived his life at Kibbutz Beit-Zera) –Israeli author and translator. He translated books in English, French and Spanish into Hebrew, but none of his 6 published Hebrew works was translated into English. He wrote in several fiction genres, including short stories, as well as autobiography. His notable contribution to the mystery genre was The Ransom (Kofer Nefesh in Hebrew, 1995), a complex thriller involving a murder mystery and an unexplained ransom demand centered on the estate of a wealthy tycoon. [Google/AI]