Born in 1918 in the town of Brotchni-Hutton, Romania, he was, from an early age and up to 1940, an active member of “HaShomer HaTzair”. In 1958 he was arrested for connections with his relatives in Israel and for a letter he wrote addressed to the President of the State. He was sentenced to 7 years in the Gulag and 5 and half years in exile. He was released in 1972, and in the same year went to Israel.
