He was enchanted by Erez Israel's light, and the cities of Safed and Jerusalem; all of which feature heavily in his paintings.

[1][2] Levanon was born as Mordechai Weiss in a village near the city of Oradea in Transylvania, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Romania).

From 1925 to 1927, he studied in the studio of the Yitzhak Frenkel (Frenel), and lived in the Mahloll neighborhood in Tel Aviv.

As the son of a rabbi in a town in Transylvania, he knew the Holy Land from Bible stories, and when he arrived in Israel, his textual understanding of the place merged with its physical landscapes.

The artist re-creates them on the canvas in a fairly free manner with changing color and perspective, until they look float, full of mysticism.