He was born in 1955 in Moscow, in an assimilated, but dissident family. For the first time he applied for the exit visa in 1973 together with his family (his parents Eugene and Rimma Yakir and grandmother Clara Yakir). They were refused because of the security clearance forms of his mother. The second time he applied in 1977 and was refused without explanation of reasons. His Zionist activity began in 1977 after the second refusal. He participated in the collective appeals to the Congress of the USA, the foreign media and so forth. He was arrested on June 18, 1984 and in accordance with article 80, part 1, of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR—charged with “the efforts to avoid military service”. On the trial on August 10, 1984 he was sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment in the medium security camp YOU−323/2 in Lipetsk. He was released on June 18-th, 1986, and continued the Zionist activity even with more energy than before. In particular, he participated (together with D. Shwartzman, N. May, A. Chernobyl’sky and others) in the organization of the movement of the children of refuseniks (so-called “The second generation movement”). In December of 1987 he left for Israel. Lives now in the settlement of Barkan in Samaria.
The information was provided by Alexander Yakir.
