 On returning for holiday to his family in Russia in 1914 he was caught up in the Communistic revolution.As he had to continue his studies there he enrolled in a technical school where he studied administration of regulating train traffic (he heard that the British Mandatory Government in Palestine was planning to develop the regulation of train traffic).In 1919 he married Judith, an eye doctor, and together they decided to emigrate to Palestine arriving on the famous "Ruslan" ship.