 Levi Brevda was part of an underground Zionist organization in Nesvizh, Belarus in the early 1900s.Brevda relocated Zionist settlers from Lyakhovichi and Minsk out of Eastern Europe to Mandatory Palestine, which later became Israel.Levi Brevda made aliyah to Israel (then known as the British Mandate) in the 1920s and elected to hebraize his name to Levi Ben Amitai.