Career
In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset on the United Religious Front list (an alliance of the four main religious parties), but lost his seat in the 1951 elections. He returned to the Knesset after the 1955 elections, by which time Hapoel HaMizrachi had formed the National Religious Party together with Mizrachi, and was appointed Deputy Speaker. He is perhaps best remembered in Orthodox Jewish circles for his authorship of "Iturei Torah" (עיטורי תורה), a commentary upon the weekly Torah portion, drawing from wide-ranging sources from Hassidus to Mussar, which he published weekly in the newspaper HaTzofe under the pseudonym "Y. Halevi".
After his death, these columns were collected and published in book form in seven volumes by Yavneh Publications of Tel Aviv.