After four years of secular primary education, he began religious studies with Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Levi.[1] When Germany occupied the area in 1944, the Nazis sent his entire family to Auschwitz where they were killed. Amital was sent to a labor camp, thus surviving the Holocaust. He remained in the labor camp for eight months, and was liberated on October 4, 1944, by the Soviet Army.[2] After his liberation, he made his way to Bucharest, from where he travelled to Palestine, arriving on December 11, 1944.[3]