Born on May 26th, 1927 in Riga, Latvia, he was arrested in 1957 for “criminal connections with Israeli Embassy in Moscow, an attempt to hijack the cruiser warship ‘Molotov’ in order to escape on it to the state of Israel and also for the attempt to assassinate Egyptian President H.A. Nasser”. He was Sentenced to 4 years imprisonment in the Gulag, he served his sentence in the infamous Pot’ma camps in Mordovia. Released in 1961, he left for Israel in 1969.
