sentences:  After his release he pursued his studies at the Hebrew University gaining a first Degree in Arabic Language and Literature & his second Degree in East Asian Studies, the latter which helped achieve a job as a producer of a Japan-based Israeli television station.Finishing a course for Correspondents at the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) in 1983 following which he fulfilled several journalistic missions amongst which were correspondent for West Bank & Gaza Affairs for Israel Channel One and Kol Israel.Ben-Menachem was commissioned by the IBA as their correspondent to Tunis in 1993 and was the first Israeli Journalist to interview Yasser Arafat before the signing of the Oslo Accords.