Ze’ev Levy is professor emeritus of modern philosophy and Jewish thought of the University of Haifa. He was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1921 and immigrated to Israel (then Palestine) in 1934. From 1939 to 1962 he was a member of Kibbutz Cheftzi-bah, and since then of Kibbutz Hama’apil. From 1973 until his retirement he was teaching at the University of Haifa. He was also guest-professor at various universities in Israel and abroad. He published about 15 books on ethics, hermeneutics, structuralism, the relations between general and Jewish philosophy, Spinoza, Rosenzweig and Levinas. At Magnes Press appeared Otherness and Responsibility – A Study of Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy (1997, 2005), and in 2002 Ethics, Emotions and Animals – on the moral status of animals (at ‘Sifriat-Poalim’), written together with his son the zoologist Nadav Levy.