Shlomo Levin received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate and Yeshivat Hamivtar and spent many years working as a rabbi and educator. Later, he earned a Master's in International Law and Human Rights from the United Nations University for Peace.

He started Shalzed because I believe human rights should give us a shared language for understanding. Instead, they are too often used instead to condemn, divide, and delegitimize.