Mordechai Levanon was born in 1901 in Transylvania. In 1921 he immigrated to Israel. In 1926 he studied at the first Art Studio which opened in Tel-Aviv. Levanon took part in the large Massad group exhibition (1929) in Tel Aviv. His works have been described as "magic landscapes" of Safed and Jerusalem. Levanon's imagery is mystical, consisting of blots of color hovering over the urban scenery of the old cities of Safed and Jerusalem in a realistic and abstracted combination. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial, in New-York, at the San Paolo Biennial and in Monaco.
The Art Prizes awarded to Levanon include the Dizengoff Prize, The Hermann Struck Prize, The Israel-Brazil Prize amongst many. His works were exhibited in all Israeli museums and form part of their permanent collections, as well as at the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Italian State Museum in Rome.He died in1968 in Jerusalem.