 On his way to Israel he was informed of the internal split within the Irgun and chose to join forces with Abraham Stern (Yair) to help form the Lehi.Once in Israel he was ordered to distance himself from Tel Aviv to avoid the attention of the authorities and he enlisted as a watchman in the Jezreel Valley where he commenced forming a local branch of the Lehi.In early 1943 he relocated to Haifa where he enlisted members, among whom was Eliahu Hakim (whose alias was Benny).