Ram Loevy is an award-winning television director and screenwriter since the medium first began broadcasting in the country in 1968.
In a career spanning forty years, he has written and directed some of the most prominent and subversive television movies and documentaries, challenging the status quo on such issues as class conflict, torture,the prison system, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Despite his reputation as a gadfly, facing off against the Israeli establishment, Loevy was awarded the Israel Prize in Communication, Radio and Television in 1993 for his lifework.
Loevy is currently Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University.