Born in 1922, in Hungary, he from 1945 was an activist in the Zionist-revisionist party “Poalei Agudat Israel” (Workers of the religious Israeli Community), where he organized a youth movement, called “Aliyah Beth”, which was involved in the underground repatriation of Holocaust survivors to Eretz Israel. In the early 50th he was the leader of the Hungarian net of the Orthodox Education of Jewish youth and kept a tight two-way connection with the Israeli Embassy in Budapest. At the beginning of 1953 he was arrested by the Hungarian Secret Service, and imprisoned in one of jails in Budapest. He was released in 1974, and made his aliyah in 1977.
