Israel Levy served as a commander in a secret unit in the IDF and as a security officer for El-Al Airlines. He is a graduate of the Technion University in Haifa, Israel is a black belt in Karate (8 Dan).

Levy is an expert in marketing and branding, a creative director, an author and a poet who has written two volumes of poetry and one collection of short stories, one Zen insights illustrated book and a novel. Hatchet is his first novel.