During World War I he lived in Swansea, England, and volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of the King’s Rifles, which was meant to participate in the liberation of the Land of Israel from the Turks. At the end of his stay in the Plymouth training camp and before leaving for Eretz Israel on February 2, 1919, he died in the service of his duties. He was buried in Plymouth, United Kingdom.