[4][5][6] He immigrated to Israel in the early 1920s and in 1925 founded the Ohel Theater, the name of which he chose together with Hayim Nachman Bialik.
He gathered a group of 22 young and inexperienced actors and guided them to the stage, for their first performance in -May 22, 1926 at the debut of "Peretz Balls", an evening of skits based on the stories of Y.L.
[8][9] He worked closely with the Israeli French painter, Isaac Frenkel, who did the costume and set designs for several of his pieces.
[10] In 1954 Halevi established a theater studio called 'Dohan', which operated under the auspices of Beit Zionei America.
In Israel, he married the actress Leah Deganit, and they had a daughter, the singer Ahla Halevi, who was the first wife of Shaike Ofir.