Education
In 1918 he finished studies in a teachers college "The Hebrew Teachers" College of Jerusalem".
In 1918 he finished studies in a teachers college "The Hebrew Teachers" College of Jerusalem".
Emigrated to Palestine in 1913 to learn rabbinical studies in Jerusalem. He enlisted in the Hebrew Battalion from Palestine of the British Army in 1918 and served during the First World War in Palestine and the Middle East until 1920. During his tenure years he refused to leave his pupils for higher positions.
He received an Master of Arts degree in Geography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1935.
After retirement from teaching he became in 1964 the first director general of the "Ben Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish communities in the East" in Jerusalem and the chairman of the Committee for Naming Roads and Streets of Jerusalem. Benvenisti wrote many teaching books and maps for school on the geography of Israel for many years.
He wrote together with his friends one of the first guide books of Palestine after the First World War. He edited books and wrote many articles on the history of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.
He wrote his memoirs on his childhood in Thessaloniki, his service in the Hebrew Battalion in the First World War, and his years as a teacher and principal of his school.
Benvenisti was married to the late Leah Friedman from Suwalki Poland.
He was a member of the Jewish Haganah organization and was wounded in the battle of the siege of Jerusalem in 1948.