Later Life
At the age of 19, Ben-Avi left Jaffa port and set sail for Europe, where he studied at universities in Paris and Berlin. He returned to Palestine as a journalist, and published many successful newspapers. He was also an ardent Zionist and often took many roles in supporting and spreading the idea of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
He was the chief editor and journalist of "Doar HaYom", the then Hebrew style-twin of the British "Daily Mail", from 1920-1933. In his numerous opinion and commentary articles in "Doar HaYom" he also advocated the widespread use of the International language Esperanto.
He died in 1943, in NYC doing a posting for the Zionist movement, five years before the establishment of Israel. He had two daughters who went on in their careers to be national radio news readers. He was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jeruslem.
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