[2] Levy was born to a Sephardic family in Tetuan in 1874 and studied at that city's school of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU).
[1] He was chosen by Abraham Ribbi,[3] director of the school in Tetuan, to attend the École normale israélite orientale [fr] in Paris.
[1] He established Zionist branches in all of the main cities in Morocco and propagated Theodor Herzl's ideology through a network of synagogues, through cultural associations (especially the Société Maghen David), and through publications (especially L'Avenir Illustré).
"[1] In a speech to the AIU alumni association in Tangier in 1896, Lévy told the audience that Jewish intellectual superiority was a source of jealousy for Christians and Muslims.
[2] On his Zionism, Kenbib notes that "Lévy felt that the Jewish dimension of Moroccan history represented an uninterrupted pattern of oppression, marginalization, and suffering, and that the Arabs had to be expelled by force from the Holy Land.