Mena­hem Hal­ber­stadt began to draw in school, scrib­bling in note­books and cre­at­ing fun­ny crea­tures and char­ac­ters. Since school, all of his work has been inspired by his inter­ests as a cre­ator, to cre­ate worlds of char­ac­ters with emo­tions and sto­ries. Hal­ber­stadt stud­ied paint­ing and draw­ing under the instruc­tion of the famous Israeli artists Leonid Bal­aklav and Aram Ger­shu­ni. Fol­low­ing this, he stud­ied ani­ma­tion at the Bet­za­lel Acad­e­my and graph­ic design at Hadas­sah Aca­d­e­m­ic Col­lege, Jerusalem. Hal­ber­stadt works as an illus­tra­tor with a num­ber of pub­lish­ing hous­es in Israel. He lives in Israel with his wife and four children.