Career
They later had three children, Yigal (born 1934), Yehuda (1940) and Binyamin (1946). He started working in the Kibbutz Artzi movement, later becoming its secretary. He also joined Mapam, also serving as the party"s secretary general.
In 1973 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list, an alliance of Mapam and the Labor Party.
On 10 April 1977 Mapam broke away from the Alignment, but rejoined two days later. Talmi was re-elected in 1977 on the Alignment list, but lost his seat in the 1981 elections.
He died in 1994.