Moshe Levin
ALLi Author Member
Location: Asia & Middle East
Genres: Philosophy, Historical Fiction
Skills: Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Press/Media Interview
Moshe Levin, geologist, the owner of one of the leading engineering geological consulting companies in Israel and a lecturer in international conferences of rock mechanics, water storage and hydropower. Among his wide range of interest, Moshe also grow Mediterranean wine grapes in his small organic vineyard in the northern mountainous region of the Galilee.
Moshe served as military intelligence officer in the IDF during the siege of Beirut in 1982 and during the siege of the Church of the Nativity in 2002 in Bethlehem. These two events led him to write about how history, religion and philosophy are manipulated to initiate bloodshed.
Moshe Levin's books
The Nativity of Bloodshed
The book contains three stories of: Amico, an Italian friar, born in Gallipoli, southern Italy, who visited the holy land and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem at the end of the 16th century, Giles, a British surveyor, who served as an officer in the Gallipoli campaign arrives after the great war to Palestine during the British Mandate at the early 20th century, and the sniper, an Israeli soldier in his first combat mission in 2002. Each one of the characters believes he knows his purpose and fate in life, but the violent events they have experienced face them with moral conflicts and, finally, each one of them must choose his unique way. The stories are told as separate stories, but the similarity in places and events create an atmosphere of traveling through time, which is tailored as one story, and with the same conflict of being faithful to yourself or being faithful to your duty.