 At the age of 14, Avital left his home in Sefrou to travel (via Algiers and France) to the newly established state of Israel.There he spent the next ten years living in a "kibbutz" and studying physics, agronomy, theology, and theatre.In 1958, he traveled to Paris, France, to study dance and drama at the Sorbonne, as well as to study mime with the French masters, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Marcel Marceau.