Born on May 11th, 1906 in Malina, Russia, he was from his youth onwards very active in He-Halutz and Poalei-Zion. In 1926 he entered the Hachshara of kibbutz Tel-Chai in Crimea to study agriculture and after the liquidation of the kibbutz he continued his Zionist activities in Moscow, where he organized a cooperative, Einhait, to help unemployed members of the former He-Halutz. Arrested in 1952 for subversive Zionist activity, he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulag. He was first sent to a prison in Alma-Ata and then transferred to a labor camp in Uzbekistan. After the death of Stalin in 1953 he was released, and in 1971 succeeded in getting to Israel. He died in 1991.
