Born in 1918 in Zmowitze, Poland, he was active in Ha-Histradrut ha-Zionist Ehud (Zionist trade-union). From 1946 to 1952 he acted as the Israeli Ambassador in Warsaw. In 1952 was arrested for espionage in connection with the Slansky Case in Czechoslovakia and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. Released in 1955, he got back to Israel in 1960.
