Chaim Beza­lel was born in NYC in 1949 and grew up in Dobbs Fer­ry, NY. He stud­ied film at North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty. In 1988 he moved to Israel where he met and mar­ried his wife and col­lab­o­ra­tor, Yon­nah Ben Levy. His work includes paint­ings, sculp­ture, pho­tog­ra­phy, film, writ­ing, and music. Chaim and Yon­nah live in Stan­wood, WA and Ashkelon, Israel.