In 1951 he immigrated to Israel, soon joined Arabic section of Kol Yisrael radio, and in 1979 was appointed as the director of its Arabic service. After a five-year tenure, he retired and devoted himself to translation, dictionaries and the completion of his academic degrees, including a doctorate at Bar-Ilan University, where he researched fundamentalism in Egypt from 1973 to 1993. He translated a series of literature works from Hebrew into Arabic, including works of Ehud Yaari and Zeev Schiff, and from Arabic into Hebrew, including works of Naguib Mahfouz.