In the 1930’s Haim and his wife Berta immigrated to Macedonia from their home in Serbia. Then, in the 1940’s he lost about 120 members of his extended family during WWII, when the Jews of the former Yugoslavia were deported to Nazi death camps.when the Nazis collected all the Jews in Macedonia, Haim and Berta were left behind. The Nazis needed the help of medical practitioners to curb a Typhoid epidemic that had broken out in northern Macedonia. The Abravanel’s spent 1943-1945 in that area where Haim worked as a doctor. After the war, in 1945, the Abravanel’s returned to Bitola/Monastir to manage the hospital in the city.At the initiative of the Jewish Community in Macedonia, the Bitola association "Archim" and with the support of the Embassy of Israel and the Public Health Institution Health Home-Bitola, today this public health institution will be named after Dr. Hayim Abravanel, a Jew who lived and worked in this city.