 Being simultaneously a pragmatist and an idealist, he believed that his participation as a representative to the Municipality of Hamadan would assure the Jews some security from arbitrary persecution at the hands of the Shiites, and in spite of his young age he headed the Jewish congregation.Moreover, Halevy was committed to finding people who had left Judaism, and return them to the Jewish faith.He fought zealously against Jewish assimilation and conversion to Islam and to the Bahá'í Faith, which was popular at this time.