 He lived there for six years, and he ended up editing the kibbutz journal and organizing cultural events.This experience helped him obtaining a position in a children's journal, where he did his first translations, and later as the editor of the Hebrew version of "Popular Photography".He graduated with honors in Hebrew language and Literature at Tel Aviv University in 1970, and completed a PhD Literary Theory at the same university in 1977 on the topic of "Translational Norms and Literary Translation into Hebrew, 1930-1945".