Einfeld is credited with changing Australia's immigration policy to provide a refuge for Holocaust survivors.

[6] Einfeld is the man credited with changing Australia's immigration policy after World War II to provide a refuge for Holocaust survivors.

[1] In 1961, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Phillip, defeating Liberal MP William Aston.

[11] He was New South Wales Minister for Consumer Affairs in the Wran Government from 1976 to 1984, when he retired from politics.

[13][14] He married Billie (Rosabelle) Appelboom on 2 June 1934 in the Great Synagogue, whereupon they lived in Newcastle, New South Wales, and had one son, Marcus, and a daughter, Robyn.