Between 1940 and 1941 he was placed in charge of Emergency Health Affairs by the Jewish National Council. Following independence in 1948, he served as director general of the Ministry of Health until 1950, also helping to establish Elisha Hospital in Haifa.[2] In 1951 he was elected to the Knesset on the General Zionists list. He was re-elected in 1955, but lost his seat in the 1959 elections.